Groups allow you to:

• Create an enabling 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 write a blog.

You can give every group its own:

• Locker (a group specific digital storage that allows a group to digitally share their files without interference from other students).
• Discussion topic.
• Assignment.

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 by yourself or if you want to allow students to choose their own groups, by self-enrolling into their preferred choice. This allows students to work on an assignment within their predetermined group, receive additional tasks and discuss a specific topic of interest in a group they chose themselves.