Groups and Groupings

Assignment: "Assignment" is an activity that enables instructors to collect, grade, and redistribute students’ work. Assignments are intended for one-to-one interaction between students and instructors. Unless students are submitting as a group, they cannot see each others' work. Students can submit many types of digital content (e.g., documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, etc.), type online text directly into GauchoSpace, or be graded on offline assignments outside of GauchoSpace (e.g., presentations, performances, or class participation). Once instructors grade an assignment activity, students can see feedback and grades for their work in the Assignment and the gradebook.

Forum: "Forum" is an activity where students and teachers can exchange ideas by posting comments. Instructors may allow files to be attached to posts, attached images will be displayed inline. There are five basic forum types within GauchoSpace, the most popular being the standard forum for general use. Forums can also be graded through the gradebook using whole forum grading or ratings. 

Group: A group is a collection of users in a GauchoSpace course site. Users can belong to multiple groups. Some groups are created automatically in GauchoSpace (such as for discussion sections or labs that are registered under a parent course). Other groups can be created manually. Instructors and Editing TAs can create and manage groups from the Participants page.

Grouping:  A grouping is a "group of groups". This is useful to help manage users in a course. Because students can belong to multiple groups, students may be in one group for a group project and in another group for a weekly discussion. By putting groups into groupings, you can tell certain GauchoSpace activities to recognize only specific groups and ignore others.

Group Mode:  Group mode determines how students view content in group activities. Separate groups mode will restrict visibility of submitted/posted content to members of a student's own group. Visible groups mode allows visibility of submitted/posted content to members of any group.  

1. In the Administration block, click Users, then click Groups.
2. Click Auto-create groups.
   
   
   
   
3. Define the naming scheme of the group to be named as a letter series or a number series.
   • • If "@" is used then groups will be named with the letter suffixes (A,B,C, etc).
     • If "#" is used then groups will with number suffixes (1,2,3, etc).
4. Specify whether you want to create a specific number of groups or whether you want to create groups with specific number of people in it. Also, specify the number of groups/people in the group.
   
   
   
   
5. Update other settings as needed:
   • • Select members with role: Choose whether to include only students or users with other role
     • Select members from grouping: Specify whether you want to include members from a specific grouping only
     • Select members from group: Specify whether to include members from a specific group
     • Allocate members: Choose how to allocate members to the group
     • Prevent Last Small Group: When selecting Members per group, depending on the number of users in the course, the last group can end up with significantly fewer members than expected. You can select this option to avoid the situation. For example, with 14 students in a class, you specify you want groups of 4. If this option is unchecked, it will create 3 groups of 4 and one group of 2 students (thus creating uneven-sized groups). But if that option is checked, it will create 2 groups of 5 students and one group of 4.
     • Ignore users in groups: Select this option to include only group members that are NOT already in a group in the course.
     • Include only active enrollments: By default, GauchoSpace will only include students with active enrollments in auto-created groups. Deselect this option to include students with other enrollment statuses.
       
       
6. In the Grouping subsection, you have the option to create a new Grouping from the auto-created groups and provide the new grouping a name. 
   
   
   
   
7. Click Submit to create your groups. 

1. In the Administration block, click Users, then click Groups.
2. Highlight the group whose name you wish to change. Then, click Edit group settings.
   
   
   
   
3. Change the group name as desired.
4. Click Save changes.

1. Create a CSV file (e.g., using Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Mac Numbers) with two columns:
   • • First column: Include either the UCSBnetID, email address, or perm number for each user you wish to place into a group. Use the same identifier for all users.
     • Second column: Contain the group name in which you would like to place the user.
2. Save file as a CSV.
3. In the UCSB Course Tool block, click Add User/Assign Roles.
   
   
   
   
4. Click Bulk group import.
   
   
   
   
5. Drag and drop the CSV file. Or click Choose a file to select and upload the CSV file. Click Submit data to save.
   
   
   
   
6. The groups will be created based on the uploaded file. Note: 
   • If the student is not registered in the course, nothing will be done for that student, and you'll see an error message.
   • If there is a group name and the group exists, the student will be added to the group.
   • If the group does not exist, it will create the group and then add the student to the group.

1. Click the people icon on the right side under edit.
   
   
   
   
2. Highlight the group you want to add to the grouping. Then, click Add.
3. Once you are done adding all the groups to the groupings, click Back to Groupings.

Step 2: Go to the week/section block where you have added your Assignment. To the right, click Edit > Edit Settings. 

Step 3: Navigate to the Group submission settings subsection, and set Students submit in groups to "Yes". 

Step 4: Edit other settings as desired - 

• Require group to make submission: This enforces the condition that a student must be a part of a group to make a submission. In such a case, users who are not members of a group will be unable to make submissions. 
• Require all group members submit: If selected, all members of the group must make a contribution and click Submit to record the submission. This setting requires that "Require students click submit button" is checked in the Submission subsection. 
• Grouping for Student Groups: Allows you to choose which grouping to apply to this assignment.
  • If your course uses groups for DSP accommodations, please place your groups for the group assignment in their own grouping and select them here. This will help maintain privacy of DSP student accommodations.

Step 5: In the Common module settings subsection, set Group mode to "Separate Groups".

STEP 6:  Select the appropriate grouping in the Grouping option.

STEP 7: Click Save and display.

Step 2: Go to the week/section block where you have added your Quiz. To the right, click Edit > Edit Settings. 

Step 3: Navigate to the Common module settings subsection, and set Group mode to "Separate Groups".

Step 4: Select the appropriate grouping in the Grouping option. Then, click Save and display.

• If your course uses groups for DSP accommodations, please place your groups for the group quiz in their own grouping and select that grouping here. This will help maintain privacy of DSP student accommodations.

Step 5: In the Administration block, click Results. Then, click Group quiz.

STEP 6:  Select the grouping for your quiz in the drop-down menu provided. Then, click Save.

STEP 7: One student can now submit the quiz on behalf of the group. 

• Once a student logs an attempt for the quiz (and once this attempt has been graded if the quiz contains manually graded questions), their score will be transferred to the other members of their group. This transfer happens automatically intermittently.
• The instructor can initiate it manually by clicking Apply grades on the Group quiz settings page.
• When grades are transferred to other group members, the content of the attempt will not appear under their name in the results area. Only the grade will be transferred.