Populi needs the functionality to create small groups of students within a course for purposes of such things as managing discussions with a large roster, small group interaction/projects.
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Megan Kobzej Yes, please!
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Nehemias Romero Yes, I agree. This would be helpful.
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Don Leavitt Yes. This functionality is needed. There needs to be a way to manually and randomly create work groups for group assignments.
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Saundra Ashby Agree. It would be nice to set up assignments and indicate which student gets that assignment. Example: 48 people in the class. 12 chapters with a subject to be assigned from each chapter. So 4 students get Chapter 1 subject assignment. Another 4 students get Chapter 2 subject assignment and so on.
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Cathie Harris I would strongly support the suggestion that Populi create the capacity to easily divide students into small groups. In the former LMS I used, dividing students into groups was quick to create and deepened the interaction among a smaller group of students - thus deepening the learning.. I changed the groupings several times during the course. I miss this feature as it limits the way students participate and learn from one another in a meaningful way.
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Leanne Kuizenga Yes please! This would be a very useful feature that we would use!
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Jeff Bakos This would be fantastic. It's virtually impossible to have meaningful discussion forums with 75-100 students in a course.
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Bethany P We want this but for purpose if TA’s managing their own region of students and not having to go through the whole gradebook to find their 7 students.
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Matthew Slisher I definitely would love to see a functionality for this added to Populi. This would make it easier and convenient for grading group assignments (especially assignments that are in parts) so I don't just have to make each student submit the same document separately.
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Joyce Chan Yes. Please make this a priority. Small group discussions are very important for online learning because it greatly increases engagement. Integrating small groups into the course function itself will save the administrative nightmare for profs. We just switched from Canvas to Populi LMS and this is one major deficiency that we found in Populi.
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Will Oliver Yes! My previous LMS called what I need "teams", which is very different from Populi's "groups" function. I want the ability to assign a number of students in a course to a team with properties such as:
- a team submits one assignment instead of each student submitting copies
- I grade the team, and each student receives that grade (I can edit a single student grade if necessary)
- I can send messages to members of a team, and the team can send messages to me
- Perhaps it would be useful to create and grade assignments unique to a team
- Teams can create discussion boards unique to team members
- It might be useful for me to create File folders available only to members of a certain team
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Kira Bonnice Yes! We would love something similar at our school. Especially the ability for a TA or specific faculty member to manage the group and their assignments. Ideally making it easier for all involved to keep track of assignments turned in.
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Molly Caldera, M.A. This feature would be extremely useful if it were tied to grading and student submissions. Instructors would then issue a grade for one student in the group who submitted the assignment, and all students would be issued that grade at the same time.
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Molly Caldera, M.A. Thanks Adam Sentz
I'll contribute there as well.
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