Creating a Group Assignment

This article will show you how to create a group assignment in a Blackboard Ultra course. You can use group assignments to teach students how to effectively work in teams. This type of assignment helps students realize that each team member can contribute something useful to solving a problem and that the group's result can be more than the sum of its parts. Students demonstrate their knowledge while learning to appreciate the perspective of others.

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Additionally, see Creating a Custom New Group Set and Creating a Randomly Assign New Group Set for step-by-step instructions for creating groups.

1. On the Course Content page, click the purple plus sign where you would like to create the new group assignment:

2. Select “Create” from the dropdown menu:

3. Below “Assessment”, click “Assignment”:

4. Within the assignment window, click the gear icon next to “Assignment Settings”:

5. Under “Details & Information”, click “Allow class conversations” if you would like students to have the ability to choose between communicating with their groups or with the class as a whole:

6. Under “Additional Tools”, click “Assign to groups”:

7. Next to “Group students”, indicate how you would like students to be split into groups in the dropdown menu. You may choose to customize groups, randomly assign groups, or allow students to self-enroll in groups. You may also reuse previously established groups:

8. When you have finished editing groups, click “Save”:

9. Click “Save” again at the bottom of the Assignment Settings panel:

10. If you would like to remove group settings from the assignment, open the Assignment Settings panel, hover over “Assigned groups”, and click the garbage bin to the right: