Planning & productivity
Volunteer role rotation
Create repeatable round-by-round role assignments from your own participant list.
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Assigns simultaneous roles to consecutive people and shifts the starting person each round. Requires distinct names/roles and at least as many people as roles, up to 50 each. Each person has at most one role per round; over a complete participant cycle each person gets every role once. Does not consider availability, qualifications or rest requirements.
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Worked example
A fixed demonstration, separate from the values you enter above.
- People, one per line
Ada Sam Jo Lee
- Simultaneous roles, one per line
Welcome Refreshments
- Rounds
- 8
Example result
| Round | Role | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome | Ada |
| 1 | Refreshments | Sam |
| 2 | Welcome | Sam |
| 2 | Refreshments | Jo |
| 3 | Welcome | Jo |
Sequential cyclic assignment gives at most one role per person in each round and rotates each role through all people over a complete participant cycle. Does not consider availability, skills or rest periods.