The Group Choice Activity allows students to self-sign up for groups within a class themselves.
\uD83D\uDCD8 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:
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)”.
Myplace is not a “high-contention” system (e.g. such as a ticket booking system), and it may be possible for group selection to result in overbooking.