Setting Up & Managing Groups
Setting Up & Managing Groups
For team projects and collaboration Blackboard provides instructors a way to create group pages. Groups are accessible only to the students who have been assigned to them along with the course instructor and TA.
- To begin, navigate to the Control Panel and under "User Management", select "Manage Groups".
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Create a Group
- From the Manage Groups page click "Add Group."
- Enter a name and a description of the group.
- Blackboard provides several tools (including Discussion, Virtual Classroom, File Exchange, and Email) that instructors can make available to a group. Select the tools you would like for the group to use.
- Click Submit.
- The "Manage Groups" page will list the group(s) you have created.
Add User to Group
- Click "Modify" to the right a group in order to add users.
- Click "Add Users to Group".
- Search for a user by name, username, or email address (users must already be enrolled in the Blackboard course).
- Select the checkbox next to the user's name you would like to add.
- Click "Submit".
- The "Manage Group" page will appear. From this page, you can also select:
- Group Properties (select to edit the group information and options)
- List Users in Group
- Remove Users from Group
How to View Group Pages as an Instructor
To view group pages that have been created and students are actively working in:
- Select "Communication" within the Tools box of your Blackboard course.
- Click "Group Pages"
- Click on the name of the group whose work you would like to view.
- Select an area of the group work space that you would like to access.
NOTE: Instructors and TAs have access to all group pages. Students will be able to see list of all groups, but can access only those groups to which they belong.
How to View Group Pages as a Student
- From within your Blackboard course, click "Communication" within the Tools box.
- Click "Group Pages"
- The group(s) you belong to will appear as links. Click on your group's name.
- Select an area of the group work space that you would like to access.
Instructors: For assistance with using Blackboard, contact bb-help@andrew.cmu.edu
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