Essential Tools for Music Directors

Features That Support Your Ensemble

Bring your program’s daily work together with connected rosters, seating charts, attendance, instrument inventory, lockers, and leadership records. Ensemble Display adds rehearsal slides and scheduled ensemble changes to your teaching day.

Introducing:  Ensemble Display: create slides, save templates for each ensemble, plan switch times, and present automatically.

Explore Instrument Inventory for instrument assignments, Lockers for storage assignments, and Leadership for student leadership records.

Custom Seating Charts

Versatile Layout Options

Flexible Seating Charts

Create layouts that match real ensemble setups instead of forcing every group into one generic chart.

Concert Arcs and Straight Rows

Build traditional concert arcs, straight classroom rows, or a mix of both depending on the room and ensemble.

Centered and Full-Width Row Options

Choose whether rows center around the conductor or spread across the available performance space.

Custom Row Controls

Adjust row names, seat counts, spacing, guide lines, and layout style to fit each ensemble.

Drag-and-Drop Student Placement

Move students quickly as sections, chair placements, or rehearsal needs change.

Section Colors and Labels

Use colors and labels to make sections easy to identify at a glance.

Presentation Mode

Project a clean chart for students, section leaders, substitutes, or rehearsal setup.

Percussion-Friendly Layouts

Add percussion icons, attach players, and organize equipment areas clearly.

Mobile Viewing

View charts on phones, tablets, Chromebooks, laptops, and classroom displays.

Print, PDF, and PNG Export

Export charts for printing, sharing, rehearsal planning, substitutes, or section leaders.

Demo Charts

Start with sample charts and layouts to see what Ensemble Helper can do before building your own.

Concert band seating chart with student photos in Ensemble Helper
Full orchestra half-circle seating chart in Ensemble Helper
Jazz band seating chart in Ensemble Helper
Indoor marching band rehearsal seating chart in Ensemble Helper

Attendance Features

Track Attendance Easily

Quick Daily Attendance Tracking

Take attendance quickly during rehearsals, classes, sectionals, performances, or ensemble meetings.

Present, Absent, Late, and Other Statuses

Track common attendance statuses so records are clear and easy to review later.

Smartboard-Friendly Attendance

Use Attendance on a classroom smartboard or interactive display for touch-friendly check-in.

Class Start and End Times

Set class start and end times that stay connected with Ensemble Display. Choose your tardy cutoff separately.

Automatic Tardy Marking

Automatically mark students tardy if they have not checked in when your chosen tardy cutoff is reached.

Attendance Board Directions

Display warm-up instructions, rehearsal reminders, or check-in procedures directly on the attendance board.

Daily, Weekly, Yearly, and Custom Date-Range Reports

Generate reports for a single day, specific date, week, full year, or custom date range.

Attendance Connected to Shared Rosters

Use the same roster data from Seating Charts so attendance does not require a separate student list.

Attendance tracking screen in Ensemble Helper
Attendance tracking from a seating chart in Ensemble Helper

Shared Rosters

Build Each Roster Once. Use It Everywhere.

Multiple Rosters for Different Classes or Ensembles

Create separate rosters for each class, ensemble, section, or group you conduct.

Roster Reuse Across Seating Charts and Attendance

Use each roster across connected tools instead of rebuilding the same list multiple times.

Google Classroom Roster Import

Import student rosters from Google Classroom to speed up setup for classes already managed there.

CSV Roster Import

Bring in existing rosters from spreadsheets or other systems using a CSV file.

Class and Ensemble Organization

Keep concert band, jazz band, orchestra, percussion, choir, and other groups organized separately.

Fewer Duplicate Updates

Update student information in one roster instead of changing it in several spreadsheets, charts, and documents.

Foundation for Connected Tools

Use roster data across Seating Charts, Attendance, Instrument Inventory, Lockers, and Leadership to keep student information connected.

Ensemble Helper dashboard with ensemble cards
Roster players panel in Ensemble Helper
Mass edit roster screen in Ensemble Helper

Classroom Workflow

Built for the Way Music Classrooms Run

Works on Desktops, Laptops, Chromebooks, Tablets, Phones, and Smartboards

Use Ensemble Helper across the devices directors already have in classrooms and rehearsal spaces.

Designed for Rehearsal, Class, and Performance Routines

Built around the daily flow of music teaching, including setup, attendance, rehearsal, and sharing information.

Useful for Directors, Substitutes, Section Leaders, and Students

Create charts and attendance tools that can support more than just the director’s planning.

Demo Mode for Trying Sample Charts and Layouts

Explore sample data and example layouts before creating your own rosters and charts.

Percussion ensemble seating chart in Ensemble Helper