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Blackboard Groups<\/a> are a way of organising students on a Course.<\/p>\n

Random enrol groups<\/h1>\n

These groups allow you to create random allocations within your course.\u00a0 This could be used for a seminar groups where you wish to allocate all students to a certain number of groups, or have groups of certain size.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Setting up random enrol groups<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Go to\u00a0 Control Panel > Users and Groups > Groups<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Within the Groups area click Create > Group Set \u2013 Random Enrol
    \n<\/strong>\"random<\/li>\n
  3. Fill in the Group Name <\/strong>and Information<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  4. Choose whether the groups will be visible to students.
    \n\"Group<\/li>\n
  5. You can associate tools to group, allowing you to have blogs, discussion boards and send emails to the group.\u00a0 These come as on as default.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Tools<\/p>\n

    \"Important You can assign all or none of these tools to groups.\u00a0 Note that Blogs, Journals and Wikis have a further option to allow grading.\u00a0 These create grade centre columns within the course for the group(s) associated with them.\r\n<\/pre>\n
    5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose your membership options<\/strong> :<\/p>\n
    a. Determine Number of groups by either number of students or number of groups<\/p>\n
    b. \u00a0When there is an uneven number of people, you can choose to distribute the members amongst existing groups; have them in a new group; or manually enrol them in groups \u2013 this allows you to add late enrollers to the course too.<\/p>\n
    \"Group<\/p>\n
    6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once you are satisfied with the information and settings in the group Click Submit<\/strong> and the groups will appear in your groups list.<\/p>\n
    \"View<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Blackboard Groups are a way of organising students on a Course. Random enrol groups These groups allow you to create random allocations within your course.\u00a0 This could be used for a seminar groups where you wish to allocate all students to a certain number of groups, or have groups of certain size.   Setting up random enrol groups Go to\u00a0 Control Panel > Users and Groups > Groups. Within the Groups area click Create > Group Set \u2013 Random Enrol Fill in the Group Name and Information. Choose whether the groups will be visible to students. You can associate tools to group, allowing you to have blogs, discussion boards and send emails to the group.\u00a0 These come as on as default. You can assign all or none of these tools to groups.\u00a0 Note that Blogs, Journals and Wikis have a further option to allow grading.\u00a0 These create grade centre columns within the course for the group(s) associated with them. 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Choose your membership options : a. Determine Number of groups by either number of students or number of groups b. \u00a0When there is an uneven number of people, you can choose to distribute the members amongst existing groups; have them in a new group; or manually enrol them in groups \u2013 this allows you to add late enrollers to the course too. 6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once you are satisfied with the information and settings in the group Click Submit and the groups will appear in your groups list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[234,233,242],"tags":[87,124],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nBlackboard: Creating multiple random enrol groups for your course - Blackboard Help for Staff - University of Reading<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blackboard: Creating multiple random enrol groups for your course - Blackboard Help for Staff - University of Reading\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Blackboard Groups are a way of organising students on a Course. 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