{"id":345,"date":"2021-09-27T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/?p=345"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:29:07","slug":"making-groups-and-group-assignments-work-in-mycourses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/2021\/09\/27\/making-groups-and-group-assignments-work-in-mycourses\/","title":{"rendered":"Making groups and group assignments work in MyCourses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using small groups and group assignments in online teaching is a great way to achieve good learning outcomes, reduce dropout and improve retention. To get the group assignments work in MyCourses, you need to use <strong>Groupings<\/strong>, in addition to creating some groups. Here\u2019s how to do it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-350\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/files\/2021\/09\/Mycourses-groups-view-788x577.jpg\" alt=\"MyCourses Groups administration view\" width=\"788\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/files\/2021\/09\/Mycourses-groups-view-788x577.jpg 788w, https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/files\/2021\/09\/Mycourses-groups-view-1140x835.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/files\/2021\/09\/Mycourses-groups-view-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/files\/2021\/09\/Mycourses-groups-view-680x498.jpg 680w, https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/files\/2021\/09\/Mycourses-groups-view.jpg 1302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firstly<\/strong>, create the groups. There are three basic ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Manually:\n<ul>\n<li>Click Participants (left navigation) \u2192 Click the gear icon \u2192 Groups.<\/li>\n<li>Create group(s) and name the group(s) \u2192 Save changes.<\/li>\n<li>Add students on the Groups view to the group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Automatically:\n<ul>\n<li>On the Groups page, click Auto-create groups.<\/li>\n<li>Set \u201cAuto create based on\u201d either in number of groups or number of students per group.<\/li>\n<li>Set \u201cSelect students from grouping\u201d as \u201cNo allocation\u201d, in case you do not yet want to populate the groups or do not have a Grouping yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Populate groups with Group choice activity:\n<ul>\n<li>Turn on editing \u2192 Add activity\/resource \u2192 Group choice<\/li>\n<li>You must have at least 2 groups for this activity to work.<\/li>\n<li>Name the activity, give a description and select the groups the students can choose from \u2192 Save and display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Secondly<\/strong>, create Groupings. Without this, the group assignment won\u2019t work:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open Groups page and open the tab Groupings.<\/li>\n<li>Click Create Grouping. Name it as you like.<\/li>\n<li>Add the previously created Groups into your grouping. DO NOT include the L01 group (L01 is automatically generated by SISU).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Thirdly<\/strong>, set up the group assignment:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Editing mode \u2192 Add activity\/resource \u2192 Assignment <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Go to the Assignment, open settings and scroll to Group submission settings.<\/li>\n<li>Select Yes for \u201cStudents submit in Group\u201ds and in \u201cGrouping for student groups\u201d choose the name of the grouping you just created.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, now you have a fully functional grouping, groups within it and an assignment that requires submissions in groups! For more detailed information on MyCourses Groups, Assignment and Group Choice, see <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.aalto.fi\/display\/mchelp\/Groups+and+groupings\">MyCourses Help page Groups and Groupings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See video <a href=\"https:\/\/aalto.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=906e74a8-8ec2-4564-b099-adaa009ff5ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Groups, grouping and group assignment in Panopto (in finnish)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using small groups and group assignments in online teaching is a great way to achieve good learning outcomes, reduce dropout and improve retention. To get the group assignments work in MyCourses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tip-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}