Organizing Students Into Groups

Canvas also allows instructors organize and manage theirs students within GROUPS. 

Ways Groups Can Function in Your Class

When you create a group, you are essentially creating a digital space for those students to collaborate and communicate. Here are some ideas on ways you can leverage groups in your course:

• Create Study Groups
  Each Group has its own announcements feature, discussions area, content pages, space for files, opportunities to hold conferences and participate in real-time collaboration. This could be a great space for students to communicate and work together on group projects.
  
  
• Create Group Assignments
  Under assignment settings, there is an option for group assignment. Instead of all students having to submit an assignment, Canvas will allow one person from each group to submit on behalf of their team. As an instructor, you can choose to grade the assignment as a group (all members will receive the same grade) or individually. 
  
  
• Create Small Group Discussions
  If you have a big class, it might be break your discussions into groups to have a more intimate and deeper conversation. Only the members of the group will see and respond to their group's post (even though all students are posting to the same discussion topic).

You can create your groups and assign students manually or automatically. Or, choose to allow students to self-select into the group of their choice.

To view videos about groups, click to watch Group Creation and Management for Instructors (Video) Links to an external site. and Group Creation and Interaction for Students (Video). Links to an external site.

 

The following tutorials relate to course-level groups: What are Student Groups? Links to an external site. Where do I find the Group sets that I already created? Links to an external site. How do I make a new set of Groups? Links to an external site. How do I automatically create Groups? Links to an external site. How do I manually create Groups? Links to an external site. How do I create self sign-up Groups? Links to an external site. How do I automatically assign students to Groups? Links to an external site. How do I allow students to sign up for their own Groups? Links to an external site. How do I manually assign students to Groups? Links to an external site. How do I view what students are doing in their groups? Links to an external site. How do I delete a set of Groups? Links to an external site.