How to Use Course Groups
How Group Feature Works in Canvas Courses
In Canvas instructors can allow students to create student groups. This option can be turned off in the course settings. Instructors can create group sets that can be used with graded online submission assignments and discussions. Each group set will groups associated with it. Each group within a group set will have discussions, pages, announcements, collaborations, and conferences that students can use to communicate with each other on the projects you have assigned to the group. Instructors can also use groups as private journal space for students to reflect on what they have learned in your course. Instructors can create Group Sets from the people page or when creating an assignment or discussion. Review the tabbed menu below to learn more.
Video Tutorial
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525 - Groups: Creation & Management Links to an external site. from Canvas LMS Links to an external site. on Vimeo Links to an external site..
Important Notes
Instructors will create a group set when creating new groups and can choose to allow students to self sign up. Groups can be created automatically or manually. The group set can have as many groups as desired; however, students can be a member of only one group in a group set.
For self-signup groups attached to graded discussions, students must sign-up for the group before their posts will display for the group discussion in SpeedGrader. Make sure all students sign-up before they start posting in group discussion.
Canvas Guides
Note: These guides are maintained by the Canvas Documentation Team and are available on the Canvas Community site Links to an external site.. Some of the information in these guides may not apply to the Lake Land College instance of Canvas. If you have a question about a feature mentioned in these guides, please review Getting Help page for details on who to contact at Lake Land College.
- How do I view all groups in a course as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I add a group set in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit a group set in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I automatically create groups in a group set? Links to an external site.
- How do I manually create groups in a group set? Links to an external site.
- How do I create self sign-up groups in a group set? Links to an external site.
- How do I automatically assign students to groups? Links to an external site.
- How do I manually assign students to groups? Links to an external site.
- How do I assign a student leader to a group? Links to an external site.
- How do I message students who have not signed up for a self sign-up group? Links to an external site.
- How do I prevent students from switching groups in self sign-up groups? Links to an external site.
- How do I move a student into a different group? Links to an external site.
- How do I view content and student activity within a group as an instructor? Links to an external site.