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Advanced Group Management |
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The Advanced Group Management feature provides a steamlined method to manage groups of students in your courses. As an alternative to Blackboard's "Manage Groups" function, Advanced Group Management is an all-in-one location where you can create/remove groups, add/remove group members, and configure group functions, such as a group discussion board and file exchange.
Students can access their assigned groups from the Communication button menu, listed as Group Pages.
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| Using Advanced Group Management |
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To access your course's Advanced Group Management area :
1. Go to your course Control Panel.
2. Click Advanced Group Management
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The Group Management screen displays a table that will list:
- Group name
- Group availability (whether the group you created is available to the students added to it)
- Group function availability: Chat, Discussion Board, E-Mail, File Transfer/Exchange
- Number of group members
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An empty Group Management table |
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| Adding Groups and Assignment Group Members |
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- To add a group, click the Add Group button.
- Enter a group name and an optional description.
- Select functions to enable or disable for the group.
- To make the group visible, click "Yes".
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 to create the group.
- Click OK to return to the Group Management screen.
- The group you have created will appear, with green checkmarks indicating whether it is available to students, and whether functions are available to group members.
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The Add Group button |
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Adding a group name and description, enabling group functions |
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A group management table with five sample groups listed. |
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To add group members :
- Select the group to which you like to add members.
- Click the View/Assign Users button.
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- Scroll down, then select Modify to choose individual students to add to the group.
You may click Randomize to have Blackboard randomly assign students to a group instead.
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- If you selected Modify in the step above, you can now select students you would like to add to the group.
The Role column indicates the student or instructor's role in the course as listed:
- ST: Student
IN: Instructor
TA: Teaching Assistant
- Click to add the students to the group.
- Click OK to return to the Group Management screen. The User Count column will now indicate the number of users added to the group.
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