What do students see in Groups

Guide to Groups for students This guide is intended for instructors and provides an overview of what students see under the “Groups” section in Brightspace. It explains what students can and cannot see about each other and how the Groups feature can be utilized. How do you access Groups? Click on ‘Course Management’ within a

How do I manage Group Enrollments in my course?  

As an instructor, you can enroll students in a group, change enrollments, assign students to other groups, or remove them from groups.  Keep in mind that you can only manage enrollments for one group category at a time. It is not possible to modify all enrollments simultaneously.  The next screen will be visible:    1. Optional:

How can I see which students are in which group? 

This guide will help you see which students are in which groups. This can be helpful for teachers, instructors, and administrators who want to view or adjust group layouts.  Click on ‘Course Management’ in the navigation bar of a course. In the dropdown menu that appears, select ‘Groups’.   You are now in the Groups Overview.

Assignments for Groups

This guide is intended for teachers and explains how to create Assignments for groups. If students need to work together on an assignment, it is possible to set up a joint submission point through a group assignment. If you haven’t created groups yet, read the guide “How do I set up Groups” before continuing. There are

Make a discussion topic for a group

A group discussion is different than a regular discussion, because it is only visible to the teacher and students that are part of the group. A Topic is a place where you can post messages and read within a forum. A Thread is a place where you post your main message that others can respond

Delete groups

In this manual an example category and group are already made which we will be deleting. First, navigate to the groups tab. Deleting individual Groups When you have navigated to the Groups menu, follow these steps: Step 1: Select the category that contains the groups you want to delete. Step 2: Select the groups that

Create groups

This guide explains how to create large numbers of groups at the same time by creating Group Categories. At the bottom of this manual, you can also find how to enroll students in groups in bulk. At the bottom of the homepage of every course you can find the following widget. Using this widget, a

Kind of groups

The Groups functionality allows you to divide students/participants in the course into smaller groups (of max. 200 students). Students can be in multiple groups at the same time. You can choose whether the groups are automatically and randomly created by the Brightspace system, whether you want to manually add students to certain groups, or whether

Email groups

1. How to send an email in Brightspace 3. By clicking on ‘Address Book’ you can select students or teachers to whom you want to send the email. 4. Check the students or teachers to whom the email should be sent and click on ‘Add Recipients’. Various options can then be filled in: 5. Finally,