1 00:00:02,490 --> 00:00:02,879 Hello. 2 00:00:04,110 --> 00:00:13,320 Welcome to IDC canvas. We're going to talk about student groups today. This is a series of webinars on canvas. 3 00:00:13,799 --> 00:00:27,750 And other tools that we have here at Irvine Valley College that you can use as an instructor and we look forward to having you work with these and let us know if there's anything else that we can provide for you. 4 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:29,550 So, 5 00:00:31,260 --> 00:00:36,690 Why would you set up groups. Groups are set up for several different reasons. 6 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:50,280 These are we're talking specifically about student groups here. So in Kansas, you can set it up for grading student collaboration. So the students can work together, have their own separate discussions within their groups, etc. 7 00:00:51,630 --> 00:01:06,990 You're going to assign work to a few students, but not to others. This is a really handy feature, depending on how you're working your class and you can have students communicate better in a group than necessarily in the whole class. 8 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:09,750 So, 9 00:01:10,980 --> 00:01:17,190 When you're going to decide how you want to set up groups, there's a couple of different ways of doing it works. We're going to go over 10 00:01:17,820 --> 00:01:22,950 That you need to think about what are you going to use the groups for as this only for one assignment. 11 00:01:23,460 --> 00:01:29,820 Is it for the whole course is that one type of assignment. What is it that you're going to use that group for 12 00:01:30,630 --> 00:01:39,720 How many groups. Do you want, do you want two people in a group. Do you want five people in a group. Do you not care how large the group is but you only want a few 13 00:01:40,140 --> 00:01:46,080 You want two or three groups or something, how you need to make the determination, how you want that set up. 14 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:51,210 Then, who do you want to set up the groups. Do you want to manually assign each student 15 00:01:51,690 --> 00:01:59,220 That way you make sure that you get people set up the way you want them set up could also be that when you're setting it up. 16 00:01:59,730 --> 00:02:10,140 You might want to give a different group for each assignment have several different assignments. That's teacher manually setting it up. You can also have Canvas automatically set up the group. 17 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:25,050 nice part about that is it's completely random. So there's no oh hey teacher you gave me the same person, and I don't like them or something like that. This is completely random by canvas. You don't have any control over it. So it's a really nice feature. 18 00:02:26,130 --> 00:02:35,370 Another possibility is having the students, sign up for the groups themselves so they can see who's in the group. They can choose to join that group if they would like to 19 00:02:36,030 --> 00:02:45,660 Or choose a different group. Now you can also have students actually create their own groups, if you want to. And we'll talk about that as well. 20 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:57,510 The one thing to be aware of with students signing up for groups is that they can then individually switch groups at their choice. You don't have control over that. 21 00:02:58,860 --> 00:03:08,370 This is for them to do. By the way, under the canvas admin automatically assigning groups. You can drag people around to change groups. If you would like 22 00:03:09,450 --> 00:03:10,020 But 23 00:03:11,460 --> 00:03:20,700 When the students, sign up for it. They're the ones who can choose which groups, they're going to be in, and then change groups at any time. As long as that group is available. 24 00:03:23,670 --> 00:03:25,620 So how do you go into groups. 25 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:35,310 To get into group, you go to people on the left hand side of your course navigation and then click on groups set 26 00:03:36,570 --> 00:03:39,120 Click on groups and then you can add a group set 27 00:03:40,470 --> 00:03:58,620 When you create a group set for instance I'm calling this one students you have the choices that we were talking about with regard to how you want to set up so self signup you can allow the students to create their own groups or to set up their own 28 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,340 Go into their own group themselves. 29 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:11,070 You can require groups members to be in the same section or not. You can you say specify how many groups you want 30 00:04:12,150 --> 00:04:14,970 You can limit the groups to a certain number of members each 31 00:04:15,780 --> 00:04:29,880 And then you also have options for leadership, which is kind of off the bottom of the screen at the moment you can side, set it up for the first person to be that leader or a random person to be a leader, if you even want to have leaders in the group for whatever reason. 32 00:04:32,580 --> 00:04:50,070 The next option here is you can split students into a specific into a specific number of groups. This will automatically try to even it out and give again the specific number of groups and the same number of students in each group if at all possible. 33 00:04:51,210 --> 00:05:00,630 The next option there is the require group members to be from the same section. The advantage to that are where that comes in is say you have 34 00:05:01,230 --> 00:05:12,030 What you're teaching multiple sections of the same course and you've had me cross was those sections. You can require all of the group members to be in the same section. 35 00:05:13,050 --> 00:05:14,310 Why is this important 36 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:24,990 I was working yesterday with a professor who has three sections that are set up for a course one of the two of the sections are face to face. 37 00:05:25,410 --> 00:05:32,100 And in that those sections one meets monday wednesday Monday one meets Tuesday, Thursday. 38 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:51,150 So she wouldn't want group members to be in two different sections. She wants them all to be in the same section as she's setting it up. So this is how you can require them to be in the same section and have Canvas do that for you. Same thing is available with the allowing self signup 39 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,440 One of the other parts to this. 40 00:05:56,460 --> 00:06:03,270 Once you've set up a group, you can clone the group set. So for this one, especially. It's really nice. 41 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:15,900 You can just copy that group said to another group said if you'd like. So this was set up maybe for one assignment you can copy it and use that same exact group set for a second assignment. If you would like 42 00:06:19,230 --> 00:06:31,500 The next part is you can create the groups that yourself, create the groups than yourself. Put the students in again yourself as the instructor 43 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:39,600 This is very nice because now you can determine exactly how many people are in each group who works together well or 44 00:06:40,050 --> 00:06:50,340 Maybe who doesn't work together well and you want to challenge people. However, it is that you as the instructor wanting to do it. This is allowing you to be the instructor and figure out what you want to do. 45 00:06:53,370 --> 00:06:57,420 When you create the groups that yourself. Now, you 46 00:06:59,430 --> 00:07:11,460 It comes up gives you the list of students and on the left and then it open groups. So I haven't created a group yet I've created only a group set 47 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:30,090 When I click on plus group I get ad group and I type in the group name, I can limit it to a certain number of user members or I can leave it blank, especially if I'm doing the work myself leaving it blank means that I'm the one in control of how many people are in each group. 48 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:42,360 Once I've created the groups here I've created three groups, it comes up and they're all blank and open for you to put the students in 49 00:07:42,840 --> 00:08:02,340 You literally click on the eight buttons eight blocks to the left of the students name and drag and drop them into the group that you want them to be in, and it will look something like this where you have each of these groups and the different people that are in each of those groups. 50 00:08:05,610 --> 00:08:14,370 You can have it automatically split into groups. And when you do that, it comes up. You say, How many groups. 51 00:08:15,810 --> 00:08:18,720 And it will do that split for you automatically. 52 00:08:20,910 --> 00:08:32,220 From the student perspective when they take a look, they can see what groups they are in. So, this particular student had one automatic signup and one that I had set up all the improved three 53 00:08:33,060 --> 00:08:40,380 And so this student was a is able to see it the way they see it is on the left navigation in their canvas navigation. 54 00:08:41,010 --> 00:08:51,900 There's the two people that it looks like on the left hand side it will say groups for some students not for others just depends on what they have set for their left navigation. 55 00:08:52,470 --> 00:09:06,990 And when they click on that they will see a list of what groups. They are currently in this has nothing to do with your class. This has to do with Canvas. So they could see all of their groups that they're in from all of their classes at the same time. 56 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:10,500 So, 57 00:09:12,150 --> 00:09:16,020 In having auto sign up. You see how everything is set up in this case. 58 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:23,520 The next option is having the students. Sign up themselves so 59 00:09:24,810 --> 00:09:41,190 This allows the students to choose their own groups, but there's a couple of different ways of doing it. One you as the teacher can create the group's it's up to you if you want to have it or if you want the student to be looking at to create their own groups. 60 00:09:42,690 --> 00:09:56,880 And by that I mean creating the group structure not creating not putting the people in it because you're having the students do that. So when you've created the structure or you allow the students to create the structure, then 61 00:09:58,140 --> 00:10:15,960 everything will work out for those students based on where they're set up. Remember, students can switch groups if they when they want to. So in order to do this you must make sure that people shows up on the left hand side of the in the course navigation. 62 00:10:17,550 --> 00:10:25,770 If people is in the course navigation people, students can automatically create their own groups. This does not matter if 63 00:10:26,130 --> 00:10:38,070 You have wanted to set up groups or not students can still do it. And once they start setting up the groups, then they can themselves go in and assign themselves to the groups if they would like. 64 00:10:40,110 --> 00:10:44,490 And again, if self sign up as enabled students can switch groups when they wanting 65 00:10:46,470 --> 00:10:49,170 So creating the students. Sign up group. 66 00:10:50,310 --> 00:11:00,330 I clicked to allow self sign up then with the group structure acquit three groups in unlimited the groups to three members each 67 00:11:01,710 --> 00:11:19,740 For leadership, I set it up to automatically assign a student leader as the first student to join the group. So that way, each group when new leader comes in or new group is started by that student there, they become the leader. 68 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:38,040 From the student perspective when they see that they can go in and join the groups. You see how on the right under the students. Sign up group. There's join 69 00:11:40,140 --> 00:11:44,160 They can also visit the other groups if they want to see it and see if they 70 00:11:45,930 --> 00:11:48,510 If they want to switch groups. 71 00:11:49,590 --> 00:12:07,080 So here under the join they've joined this group. Now they can leave the group, you see that on the right and switch to a different group. They can leave the group and not be in a group at all, or they can leave the group and switch to a second group. 72 00:12:09,270 --> 00:12:19,050 And now that this same student has the signed up for a group, you see that the students sign up. Group one is the one that's in place. 73 00:12:22,140 --> 00:12:39,480 If the students themselves wants to create a group completely on their own. They see they see this when they go into people. And then they click on plus group so they can give a group name. They can either 74 00:12:40,530 --> 00:12:59,820 Choose to have allow members to join whenever they want. Or they can invite specific people at this point, they actually see the list of people, they can click on it and they can send an invitation to those and allows them to work together on a particular project or something like that. 75 00:13:03,150 --> 00:13:11,730 What happens in Canvas. When you have a group. So any of the ways we've just talked about creating groups allows you to 76 00:13:12,180 --> 00:13:23,670 Allows you to have a group, but it's not just about submitting assignments, although that can be all that you use it for. There's a lot more that can go into this. So let's start with 77 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:39,510 The Group Homepage so as the instructor. When you have your list of groups, you can go to the right and click on visit Group Homepage and you'll see the homepage. Now you can go in and you can edit this. You can put 78 00:13:40,740 --> 00:13:51,390 Us pages and create home pages you can do announcements directly, just to that one group, you can have discussions that are only for that group certain files that are only for that group. 79 00:13:52,200 --> 00:14:07,950 You do not have the ability to change the menu on the left for that group, but you've got a lot of things that you can do in this group and the whole idea here is to have your students working together in a group and have Canvas control that. 80 00:14:10,290 --> 00:14:14,760 So if they go into people. They see the other people that are in the group. 81 00:14:16,380 --> 00:14:30,060 And you can see that at the top there's an option for switching groups. This is again from the teacher standpoint, you can go in and switch so that you can flip very quickly through the different groups that are setup that you have that setup. 82 00:14:31,950 --> 00:14:37,140 When you go in and you create an assignment, for instance, here I've created group one assignment. 83 00:14:38,430 --> 00:14:54,300 I now can make it a group assignment, the check box in front of this is a group assignment. I have two options for how I want to create the assignment one I want to give all the students, the same grade or the other is assigned a great individually. 84 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:07,230 If you're doing an assignment that you this. That's part of what you're trying to accomplish is to have one grade for multiple students then not having that checked is a really good way of filling 85 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:16,710 Filling out the grades and getting it. Correct. If, on the other hand, you have a group assignment where maybe somebody's going to work harder than others. You want to give 86 00:15:17,130 --> 00:15:25,440 Some difference in rating based on something like that, then checking the assigned grades to each student individually as a great way to handle that. 87 00:15:27,750 --> 00:15:44,220 You then pick which groups that you want to work with and you can create a new group set or category as they call it on the screen. So that would allow you to do for instance Assignment one group assignment to group. If you wanted to have separate groups for each assignment. 88 00:15:47,490 --> 00:15:58,980 Down below that you have an option for requiring peer reviews peer reviews work with groups, very similar to how they work in discussions or in other assignments. 89 00:15:59,310 --> 00:16:14,400 So you can have it automatically when you do require peer reviews, it will notify everybody who is handed in the assignment. By the time of the peer review that they are to review the specific 90 00:16:16,530 --> 00:16:30,990 Submission by another student and by another group, specifically, so that will help you there. One of the nice things though is you can now assign this to a specific group. 91 00:16:32,310 --> 00:16:42,900 Why do I say that maybe you have a group that is as we talked about before, maybe the group is made up of one section of your class versus another section of your class. 92 00:16:43,260 --> 00:16:53,070 Well, you could do an assigned to based on the section. Maybe this assignment is only for a specific group, for instance. 93 00:16:53,820 --> 00:17:03,420 You may have a presentations and you're wanting to do three different types of presentations. One is a video presentation where the group has to record a video. 94 00:17:03,870 --> 00:17:10,980 Another is an oral presentation in front of the class and the third is just handouts in the class. 95 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:19,110 And you want to see how each one is handled differently. So you might have different due dates different things like that associated with it. 96 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:31,500 So you could have group one be video presentations. When you do the video presentations that due date is going to be different than group to who's doing or presentations. 97 00:17:32,070 --> 00:17:46,140 Things like that. So you figure out what makes most sense for you. But this is a really nice thing once you've set up groups. Once you set this as a group assignment. You can then assign it to individual groups, which is a really great feature. 98 00:17:49,470 --> 00:17:54,840 Another nice feature is if you assign it to an individual group now only that group. 99 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:02,640 Will show up in the gradebook to receive upgrades. So in this case, group one was made up of Brett and Daniel 100 00:18:03,060 --> 00:18:17,970 And so that those are the only two that I can give grades to the rest of the grades are grayed out that those students don't even know that this assignment exists, it's only for the two that are in this particular group. 101 00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:38,190 For more information about groups, please go to Canvas or go to Google, type in groups in Canvas, you'll find out a lot of information, or you can get a lot more information on all topics related to Canvas, through 102 00:18:39,390 --> 00:18:40,410 Call in Canvas. 103 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:55,440 Through tech that obviously that edu especially for students I VC that edu has a specific distance education area that's got a lot of information about Canvas and about other distance education type 104 00:18:55,950 --> 00:19:10,260 Issues and then you can contact me as a faculty member Tech has got a specific faculty area training that obviously.edu you'll see options for webinars. A lot of different training that we offer. 105 00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:25,230 And as I said before, always take a look at Google, Google's got all kinds of information for you that will help you and help you develop your class learn from other people, stuff like that. 106 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:31,200 Thank you for watching and I look forward to presenting to you again next week. 107 00:19:32,310 --> 00:19:32,940 Have a great week.