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Setting up Student Self-Enrollment Groups in Blackboard
Students can self-enroll themselves into groups in Blackboard. To set up a Self-Enrollment group, click on New Group Set and in the drop down menu choose Self-enroll.
The Group Set Settings options will come up next. Be sure to look at how many groups have been generated first. In the example below, you can see that 3 groups have been generated, but I only have 4 students in this course, so I would only want 2 groups.
To change this, close the Groups Set Settings box and remove one of the groups. To do this, click on the 3 dots to the right of the group you want to delete and click on Delete Group.
NOTE: You can also rename the groups by clicking on the 3 dots to the right of the group name then clicking on Group Settings and changing the name in that next screen (see example below).
If you have changed a group name or deleted a group, you can go back to the Self-enrollment settings on the page where you are creating the groups and click on the pencil icon (see image).
This will bring up a array of Self-Enrollment settings options. You can set a start and end date for students to self-enroll. You can also check the option to automatically enroll a student into a group if they have not done so by the due date. Instructors also have the option to limited the amount of students in each group. This insures that one group is not larger than the other.
Once the settings are chosen, click Save.
Once the Group Self-Enrollment is set up, students will receive a course announcement to enroll themselves into a group in the course (see example below).
Students will then go to their Groups tab and join the group of their choosing. They will see the enrollment deadline here also (see example below).
