Groups

Groups allow you to divide the students on your course into smaller groups for administrative or pedagogical reasons.

Groups allow you to:

Enable students to work together as project group on an assignment such as a presentation or paper.
Create peer feedback groups to allow students to learn from each other’s work.
Split up large tutorial or lecture groups into smaller groups for a specific day of the week.
Create discussion groups based on a specific group topic.
Send emails to a specific group or to all groups.
Create a group for every student.

You can give every group its own:

locker (a groups specific digital storage that allows a group to digitally share their files without interference from other students).
discussion topic(s)
assignment(s)
other content (the group as a release condition)

There are three different ways you can let students join groups:

“Auto enrollment” - the students are automatically enrolled into groups in advance.
“Self enrollment”, the students themselves can join, and leave by groups.
"No Auto enrollment", the instructor divides the students into groups manually.

NOTE: Students who are enrolled in a group get access to existing content in the group (e.g. submissions). Students who are unenrolled will no longer have access.

NOTE: The group tool is not designed to support continuous assesment. Therefore, it is not recommended to use the tool for this purpose.

1. Create groups

This guide shows you how different types of groups are created and how students are enrolled in the groups.

NOTE: Students who are enrolled in a group get access to existing content in the group (e.g. submissions). Students who are unenrolled will no longer have access to the group’s content.

NOTE: If you plan to use inline feedback in group assignments using the annotation tool in Brightspace and there are sections in your course, please follow this detailed guide. It highlights a few crucial aspects for providing inline feedback on group submissions.

If you have selected to use self-enrollment, we recommend that you also view this guide.:

2. Students' access to the groups

This guide shows you how students approach groups.

NOTE: Students who are enrolled in a group get access to any pre-existing content and students who are unenrolled will no longer have access to the group’s content.

3. Groupe overview

This guide shows you how to find an overview of the existing groups in the course and how to change who is in which groups.

Revised 22.01.2024

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