Groups

Groups: An Introduction

Groups are teams of students organised under one heading.

Why set up Groups?

Before setting up the assessment criteria you must first allocate students into groups. These can be arranged entirely at your discretion, and can include individuals from different modules.

You can create any number of groups, and once created, you can reuse them in any number of assessments. If in the future you want to create new groups based on an old one, then to save time you can simply create a clone and tweak it to your liking.

What are Collections?

In Web-PA, collections are used to help you manage many groups at once. Each collection contains all the groups you want to take part in an assessment. Each assessment can only run for one collection of groups, although there's nothing stopping you creating multiple assessments and scheduling them for the same times.

You start by creating a collection and giving it a name (e.g. 06ABC123 Coursework Groups) and choosing which modules you want to draw your students from. Once you know which students you're selecting from, you can then begin adding groups to the collection.

How collections and groups work To recap:

• Collection: An organization of groups all collected under one heading. It also defines which modules you will choose your students from. You can create as many groups as you like within a collection.

• Groups: The groups/teams of students who will be working together and peer-assessing each other. Groups can contain as many students as you wish, although around 4-5 is considered the norm.

• Unallocated Students: Within a collection, students can only be a member of one group at a time. Students who have not yet been placed in a group are listed as unallocated.