Groups | How to use Brightspace Groups

You can use groups to organize users’ work on projects and assignments, or you can create special work areas for users with different learning needs (Source: D2L)

What are Groups in Brightspace?

Using Groups allows you to divide students who take the course into smaller groups for administrative or content purposes. You are able to divide all students into groups, or just a part of the students. Students can be part of various different groups within the same course. 

Using  Groups,  you are then able to:

  • Let students work together on an assignment (such as a presentation or paper)
  • Make subgroups in large groups (for example tutorial groups for Tuesday and Thursday)
  • Make groups for students with different educational needs (for example an advanced group, or a group that needs extra support)

Each group can be provided with:

You can check the best practices for setting up groups provided by D2L.

The Manage Groups homepage

On the Manage Groups homepage, you will have an overview of the existing Group Categories and their groups. From this page, it is possible to create new groups, adjust or delete the existing ones, view which students are assigned to a certain Group, or even send an email to a group.

Manage groups

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Now you know how to use Groups in Brightspace!

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