Group Self Selection with Group Choice Activity

The Group Choice Activity allows students to self-sign up for groups within a class themselves.

Instructions

Before creating the Self Selection Activity, you will need to create the grouping which will contain the groups the students will chose from.

The Manually Creating a Group and Adding it to a Grouping page explains how to do this, keeping in mind that the groups need to be created first, so that they can be the added to a grouping.

Once the groups and grouping have been created, the Groupings page should show which groups are contained within it:

Grouping Overview, showing Groups assigned to Grouping “Group Test”

Make sure the class is in Edit Mode, and click on Add activity or resource
Click on the Group Choice Activity:
Choose a title for the activity.
Select the Groups that will be offered to Students to choose from.

This has changed substantially from the Group Self Selection activity. More detailed guidance is in the Selecting Groups section below.

Selecting Groups

The options for choosing which groups are available to Students to select has changed substantially.

Previously this was just a case of selecting an existing Grouping, and all groups within the grouping would be offered.

With the Group Choice activity, you can choose any combination of groups from within the module.

Adding Groups from a Grouping

In the available Groups selector, Groupings are displayed as bold items, with an arrow on the left hand side.

Selecting a Grouping option and clicking on the Add Grouping button will add all of the Groups under the group.

If you add a new group to the group it will no longer automatically be added into the choice activity. You must add the group manually if you create a new group.

Limiting Students Per Group

Once you have added Groups to the activity, you may use the Limit the number of responses allowed option to enable limits.

This will enable the General Limitation option that allows to set a limit to all groups at once.

Once enabled extra options will appear in the Groups section when a group is selected under the Selected Groups section.

The Limit For <group> option will appear below the selected group (it will display the relevant name of group), and you can set this value to limit the number of members.

Different limits can be set for different groups.

Once you have set these, remember to either Save and return to class or Save and display.

When a student views the activity they will see a selection choice:

If a group has reached it’s limit it will be displayed as “(Full)”.

Overfilling Groups

Whilst the Group Select activity will attempt to limit the membership to the specified limit it may overbook if requests are made very close to each other.

As a member of staff you can choose to have more than the limited number of students in the group.

The activity reflects the membership of the selected groups in the module site, so any users added to a group via the Participants or Groups managements will be reflected.

You can also use these pages to remove students from groups and add them to another group without the “student facing” limitations provided by the activity.

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