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Why use it?
This feature is useful for organising students into smaller groups of their own choice for collaborative work.
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Turn on edit mode. Scroll to the section where you want the Group Choice activity to appear, then click Add an activity or resource and select Group Choice.
Give the activity a meaningful Name and use the Description to explain what the students will have to do.
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Step 3: Add the Groups to Participate in Group Choice
In the Group Choice plugin, the Scroll down to the Groups setting, this is where you select the specific groups or groupings that students can choose from when participating in the activity.
Navigate to the Groups setting within the plugin
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Add Groups/Groupings
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Select one or more groups from the Available Groups list and click the Add Group button to include individual groups them for student selection. This allows you to specify which specific groups you want to make available.
If you have a grouping that includes all your desired groups, you can add the entire grouping by selecting it and clicking Add Grouping.
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If you want to limit the number of students allowed to chose a group, please see Limit the number of responses allowed in Step 5: Miscellaneous settings. |
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This is an optional setting which enables a defined specific time frame during which students can make their group selections. To set a time frame, tick the option box for Restrict answering to this time period.
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Specify the Open date and time to indicate when students can begin making their selections.
Set the Until date and time to define when the group selection will close.
Step 5: Settings
General
Give the Group choice activity a name and description.
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Settings
Use the available settings to customize your activity, such as anonymising the results, limiting the number of students per group, or setting a deadline.
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Miscellaneous settings
In Miscellaneous settings you will find a range of settings specific to the Group Choice activity.
Allow enrollment to multiple groups
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Check this box if you would like students to select more than one group to participate in. Max, enrollmentsTo adjust this setting, you must first enable Allow enrollment to multiple groups. This option allows you to set the maximum number of groups each student can join. If set to 0, students can join an unlimited number of groups. |
Publish results
This setting determines if and how students can view the results of group selections.:
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Privacy of Results
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Allow Choice to be Updated
Controls whether students can change their group selection after their initial choice.
Show Column for Unanswered
When enabled, the Show column for unanswered setting adds a column to the View Responses table that indicates how many students have not yet made a selection in the Group Choice activity.
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Filter Out Response Data for Users with Expired or Suspended Enrolments
Turn on this setting to ensure inactive suspended students won’t be included in the activity.
Limit the Number of Responses Allowed
Controls By default, this option is disabled. If you enable it, you can control how many students can enrol in each group when enabled. To ensure
Setting the same
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limit to all groups
Once you have included all your groups (see Step 3), set the maximum number of students in the General limitation box.
Click Apply to all groups button to apply the changes. You will see the new limit displayed in brackets next to each group.
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Every time you add a new group you need to click Apply to all groups again. Otherwise, the new groups have a limit of 0 responses and students will not be able to select it as an option. |
Different limitations per group
You can apply customized response limits for individual groups in the Groups settings of the activity
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: scroll to the Groups section in your Group choice activity, select the desired group, and set
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the limit in the Limit For (GroupName)
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box under the Selected Group list.
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Common module settings
Here you can hide or make hide or unhide the activity.
The Group mode will not affect this activity.
Restrict access
This is an optional setting which enables a defined specific time frame during which students can make their group selections. To set a time frame, tick the option box for Restrict answering to this time period.
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Specify the Open date and time to indicate when students can begin making their selections.
Set the Until date and time to define when the group selection will close.
Step 5: View the responses
When you open the activity, you will see a table with the groups. Click on the Show group members button to see a list of students signed up to each group.
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Downloading the responses
Click on the View responses button and scroll to the bottom of the page, where you can choose in which format you want to download the results.
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Deleting responses
Click on the View responses button and select the student whose response you want to delete and select the action in the With selected dropbox.
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Make sure you have selected the correct student. Once you select the “Delete” option in the dropbox, the response is immediately deleted without a confirmation message. |
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