Groups and Group sets
Groups are a powerful tool to help manage cohorts and promote collaboration through tasks, assessments, and discussions. The available options for group creation fit most scenarios and should allow you to set up your groups quickly.
Groups can be accessed via the Groups tab in the Course toolbar:
To create one or more groups, you first need to create a Group Set to contain the groups. You can create a new group set from the Groups tab in a module, or by importing the group data from a CSV file.
Instructions
Creating Groups in your module
Choose Groups in the course toolbar and click +New Group Set.
Give the Group Set a name.
Choose one of the options from the Group students drop-down menu to set up your groups:
Custom: manually add students to groups
Randomly assign: automatically add students to groups at random
Self-enrolment: lets student choose their group
Creating custom groups
Selecting Custom from the Group students dropdown menu lets you create groups manually.
Select the plus sign to add a new group then double click on the name to give the group a meaningful title.
Create as many groups as you will need using the plus symbol.
Then in the Unassigned students section at the top of the page. Select all the students belonging to the group then click on the ellipsis beside the final student name and assign them to a group.
To select multiple students at the same time, hold the Shift key on your keyboard and click each student name with your mouse.
Repeat for each group
You can un-assign or reassign a student at any time using dropdrown menu by clicking on the ellipsis beside the student name.
Once you have finished allocating students to groups, select Save at the bottom of the page.
Your group set will appear in the groups list. Click on the arrow to reveal the groups inside the group set.
Use the Arrow to view the Groups at a glance. From here, you can enter an individual Groupspace to see individual group details and Group members.
The ellipses (3 dots) give you options to Message all Groups in the Groupset, Edit group details or Export as .csv file.
Remember if you wish your students to be able to see the Groups and interact with each other, you need to make your group visible to students when it is ready to use.
Randomly assigning students to groups
Randomly assign lets you randomly distribute students throughout a specified number of groups
Select Randomly assign from the drop-down menu
Select the number of groups
Edit the Group names by clicking on the default group titles.
Select Save at the bottom of the page
Your group set will appear in the groups list. Click on the arrow to reveal the groups inside the group set.
Use the ellipsis (3 dots) to edit the groupset and/ or to edit the individual group details and membership.
Remember to make your group visible to students when you are ready to use it.
Self enrolment
The group set must be Visible to students for this option to be available.
You may want to give students the opportunity to choose their group. By default, two groups will be created. More can be added by selecting the plus sign below the existing groups.
The Advanced Options let you add a description, program the enrolment start and end dates, and the maximum number of students per group. By default, group members are visible.
Watch a 3 min video about setting up groups in Ultra
Groups Spaces to view Group Members or Group assignments
You can quickly view membership of groups or see any of the assignments for a specific group via Group Spaces.
On the Groups page, select the name of a Groupset to expand the Groups within it.
Click the name of an individual Group, or choose 'Show Members' to see individual group information.
Message Group Members and enter Groupspace
You can select the ‘Envelope’ icon to the right of the groupname to quickly send a message to all group members.
When you click 'Show Members' you enter the Groupspace for this group.
The Content tab will show any Group assignments for these students.
The Members tab will show all of the group members.