The Groups tool allows faculty members to organize students into groups of any size. Groups can be used for assignments, discussions, to restrict access to content using Release Conditions, to send Messages to multiple students at the same time (CC'd), or for distributed and delegated grading.
Groups can be created at the course level on the Groups tab in the top navigation, in the settings for an Assignment, or in the settings for a Discussion. Groups can be created manually, randomly, or set up for students to self-enroll in a group of their choice.
You can use the Groups feature in Blackboard to allow students to collaborate on projects, assignments, quizzes or any other collaboration-based course work. This feature provides private areas that students can use for discussions, chats, file sharing and quick email access among group members.
Yes. The tools available through the Groups feature area are very similar to the tools that are available at the “course” or "whole class" level. Also, please note that there are three ways that students can join a group:
As faculty member, you can contribute to the group discussion forums and send e-mails to group members. You will also have the ability to view activity within a group without actually being added to the group.
The easiest way to move a student from one group to another is to first remove (i.e. un-enroll) the student from the original group, and then add that student to the correct group. Please note that all information connected to that student will be lost once you remove him/her from the original group.
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