Creating and Managing Groups in Your MyClasses Course

Groups are a small version of a course and used as a collaborative tool where students can work together on group projects and assignments. Instructors can create groups for students to collaborate on group assignments, pages, collaborations, and more. Instructors can also allow students to create their own groups. Groups are created under Group Sets, allowing for multiple sets of groups that can be assigned for unique purposes. As an instructor, you can create groups to:

• Set up student group configurations at the course level for assignments and in-class work, both graded and ungraded.

• Facilitate semester-long projects so that students can communicate and iterate on documents together.

• Facilitate faculty professional development and institutional committees or activities.

• Facilitate student-run study groups within courses or at the account level.

Within Groups, instructors can:

• View all activity within all the groups within their course, including groups created by students (by default students will be allowed to create their own groups)

• View all created groups within the course

• Manually or automatically create groups within a group set

• Manually or automatically assign students to groups within a group set

• Assign group leaders to each group

• Allow students to sign up for their own groups

• Expand and collapse subgroups

• Move students into different subgroups

• Create group collaborations

Watch the video below for more information about creating student groups in your course.

Canvas Guides

You may also be interested in reviewing additional support guides from Canvas:

• How to Add a Group Set in a Course

• How to Manually Create Groups in a Group Set

• How to Automatically Create Groups in a Group Set

• How to Create Self Sign-up Groups in a Group Set

• And more!

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