Selecting “Custom” when creating a group set allows you to manually create groups and to assign students. You can create as many groups as you want, with any number of students in each group.
To create a custom group set:
- From the menu, select Groups.
- On the Manage Groups page, select New Group Set.
- The groups page will open up. Select the pencil icon to edit the name of the group set.
- Select the Group students> Custom.
- Click the purple plus sign to manually create a new group. You can repeat multiple times to create multiple groups.
- To assign students to a group, select students. The box of the selected students will turn black.
- Select 3 dots from one of these students selected. It opens a menu. From the menu, click a group already existing by moving them all to the group, or select Create a new group to move them to a new group. Instead of moving a set of students, you can also do this for each student.
- Optional: Edit the default group name and/or add a group description.
- Once all students are in groups (or if you don’t want some to be in a group, that is okay, too), select Save.
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Additional Resources
- Manage groups and membership – a Blackboard Help resource