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How do I use Groups?

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Groups

Groups allow you to divide the students who participate in your course into smaller groups (of up to 200 students) for administrative or pedagogical reasons. You can decide whether you want to enroll all of your students into groups or just a specific number. Students can hand in group assignment and you can choose whether you want to review their work on an individual basis or as a group.

Groups allow you to:

  • Create a project environment, where students can work together on assignments, such as a written paper or presentation;
  • 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;
  • Create groups for students with specific pedagogical needs;
  • Create a group for every student, allowing them to create and update bigger assignments.

You can give every group its own:

Students can be enrolled for multiple groups at once and you can decide whether the groups are automatically and randomly created by the Brightspace system, manually/using a CSV-file by yourself, or if you want to allow students to choose their own groups, by self-enrolling into their preferred choice.

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