Group Choice Activity

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  • May 23, 2018

Group Choice Activity

The Group Choice activity allows students to enroll themselves in course groups set up by the instructor. This takes the burden off instructors when it comes to managing group enrollments and is a great way to smooth your course delivery when using groups.

Adding a Group Choice activity

You must create empty groups in your course before you will be able to configure your Group Choice activity. If you’re unfamiliar with creating groups, see this article: “How to Establish Groups.”

  1. In the very top right of your course, click the Gear menu > Turn Editing On.

  1. Scroll to the module in which you want the Group Choice activity. Click + Add an activity or resource link in the bottom right of the module. In the pop-up menu, click Group Choice > Add.

Configuring Your Group Choice Activity

On the Adding a new Group choice screen, you will configure your activity.

  1. Add a Name for the activity.
  2. Add a Description with instructions for the students (optional).
  3. Choose your Miscellaneous settings:
    1. You can allow enrollments to multiple groups.
    2. Choose whether to show or hide student choices from others.
    3. Choose whether students may change groups after their initial choice.
    4. Limit the number of responses allowed—this is optional, but useful if you want to limit the number of students who can enroll in a single group. Set this number as the maximum possible number of group members. Click Apply to all groups to save the limit.

  1. Choose which Groups to make available for selection. Select the group from the column on the left, and click the Add button to add them to the selection options.
    1. Use the Sort groups by drop-down to choose in what order your groups will display.
  2. If you wish to limit student choices to a certain time period, use the Restrict answering to this time period

  1. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and Display to view your activity. Students will now be able to choose their groups, which will function in any activities you have set to Group Mode.