The Group self-selection tool enables you to let students sign up for groups within a class themselves.

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Creating the grouping and groups

Before creating the group self-selection tool, you will need to create the grouping which will contain the groups the students will choose from.

The page below explains how to do that, keeping in mind that the groups needs to be created first, so that they can then be added to a grouping.

Manually Creating a Group and Adding it to a Grouping

Once you are done, you should have something that would look similar two this (for two groups to choose from), with the grouping called 'GROUP TEST' and the groups called 'GROUP TEST A' and 'GROUP TEST B'.

How to set up the Group self-selection tool

1. Make sure the class is on Edit Mode, and click on 'Add an activity or resource'
2. Click on 'Group self-selection'
3. Choose a title for the activity, and set the grouping containing the groups to choose from in the 'Select group from grouping' drop-down menu, like below: