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I had a teacher make seating charts in Bingo Card Creator by exploiting the fact that, for the free trial, the random perturbation of the words is deterministic

by patio11 12y ago

I had a teacher make seating charts in Bingo Card Creator by exploiting the fact that, for the free trial, the random perturbation of the words is deterministic. She put 1 through 25 in the word list, observed where they showed up on the bingo card, then replaced them with students' names to get the desired seating chart. (How do I know this? Because she bought BCC and that replaced the deterministic random seed with an actual random seed, causing the seating chart to break and her to send me a support email the next time she tried printing it.) Given that one of my Internet buddies runs a table planning software company I probably should have bought her a license on general principles.

transfire 12y ago
That's awesome.
transfire 12y ago
Instead of calling students by name, she can just call them by their bingo numbers. B12 and N32 could you please come to the board. :-)
- jheriko 12y ago
  as a tangent... one of my former teachers would call register by assigning us numbers at the start of the year, then everyone would say them in sequence. a lot faster than the classical approach. :)