Groups are one of the most underutilized features in Blackboard, IMHO, but also one of the most useful.<\/p>\n
With Groups in Blackboard 9.1, you can:<\/p>\n
Groups basics<\/strong><\/p>\n If you’ve requested a merged course or just want to give students a space where they can work as a team by exchanging files, keeping a team blog,using group chat room, etc., Groups will be helpful to you. You can enable some or all of these for each group. Blackboard has a helpful viewlet about how to add students to groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n Setting up sets of Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n Group sets can be useful if you want to divide your students multiple ways (i.e. sections AND teams; teams WITHIN sections), The Academic Colleges Group IT (ACGICT) has created two video tutorials that will show you how to create group sets<\/a> and how to edit group sets<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also randomize user enrollments into groups in sets.<\/p>\n Self-enrolling in Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n Need a sign-up sheet? You can use the self-enroll option in Groups to set up groups to which students add themselves. Group sets also include a self-enroll option.<\/p>\n Tests: Adaptive Release for Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n When setting up a test that will be deployed, you can create Rules in Advanced Adaptive Release, which you find by clicking the double-chevron to the right of the test once you’ve added it to a content area. Select Create Criteria > Membership to select the Group; select Create Criteria > Date to set the to\/from dates).<\/p>\n