Blackboard enables you to place the students of a course into groups. When you group students, you gain some capabilities and get some limitations. You can use groups to organize the students who are in a course into teams, and also to separate students into different classes, while they use the same Blackboard course.
In this chapter, you will be learning the following topics:
Creating groups
Assigning students to groups
Enabling students to choose their own groups
Setting up the group setting for an activity
Sending e-mails to all the members of a group
Some group activities are visible to everyone in the course. But only the members of the specified group can edit the activity. When a group activity is visible to everyone, but only group members can participate, it's as if everyone in the class can "watch" the group perform the activity.
Some group activities are visible only to members of the specified group. In this case, groups cannot see each other's work...