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Discussion board groups with selected students

Mary Jean Croft

March 13, 2013 20:30

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I am in the discussion board. I am trying to set up a discussion with my clinical group. I want to limit its availability to only those students in my clinical group (11 of them) to a specific period of time. I do not want the whole class to participate until I have them in clinical. It would be wonderful if we had this feature and could select students to participate in a private discussion board that only ones current clinical group could see and participate in.  

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  Stan Fowler October 05, 2017 17:19

  I second this. When I start a discussion in a large class, I would like to divide them into smaller groups for discussion, so that every student is not required to read every other student's post. This is easily done in Moodle, and it is very useful. I am coping by manually dividing up the class into smaller groups and communicating the division to the students. But they still have to scroll through all posts and find the ones in their group. Capacity to create the groups would be a very useful feature.

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  Bethany P June 15, 2020 19:30

  I would like the same thing. Our students come from 4 different countries and need to be able to discuss the content of the lesson in their own languages as smaller groups. It would be good to be able to have an invite feature like is available in conferences.

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  Debbie Martis September 17, 2020 00:00

  I would love to have this feature especially with distance learning.  It would help students connect in one place and make it efficient for them.  Thank you for your consideration!

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  Elaine Phillips March 31, 2021 19:20

  We still want this!

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  Jeff Bakos May 07, 2021 14:29

  It would be great for large classes to be able to break them into smaller graded discussion groups. Is this in the works?

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  Joyce Chan August 23, 2021 21:53

  Ditto

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  Terri Grote December 02, 2021 05:13

  Has this ever been implemented? If not is it in the works?

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  Jenn Lundy May 12, 2022 18:34

  This would be a great feature! 

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  David Balzer July 31, 2023 20:34

  The ability to create a Discussion board with a group of students for projects, etc was requested 10 years ago. Any chance this feature will become a reality? Any updates on this? It's a fundamental part of online and in-person learning to be able to interact in  small group settings. Thanks for considering. 

  Edited by David Balzer July 31, 2023 20:35
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  Adam Sentz July 31, 2023 20:50

  David Balzer - This is probably the most in-demand feature that we haven't added to Populi's LMS yet so there's a decent chance.