Group Work

Syllabus Units Instructors

Group Signup

You can have a page in your Canvas course where you give everyone editing rights. This makes it very easy to do a signup for groups in a central location instead of using a discussion board or opening group selection under People. Students can hit EDIT and add their names. And instructors or students can add more descriptions, notes and information about each group's organizing principles.

Group Name

To create this page, in EDIT mode next to OPTIONS, the dropdown menu has the alternative: "'Teachers and students' can edit this page." Save the page with this option selected.

Collaboration

In addition, while many students and faculty have worked in groups and worked with Google Docs, others have not always had as much experience. Adding a few links to tutorials and 'advice' for working in groups on a supplemental page can help projects run smoothly and aid students in focusing on learning, and less on mechanics and people issues.

The Collaborations navigation menu provides the means to link to Google Docs pages in students or instructor's gmail accounts. Students can do this from the main course shell or link the Google Doc with their group Collaboration menu in their groups' tools.

Conferences with Zoom

You can also use this supplemental page to help students think about 'rules of the road' for their group or using group contracts to set guidelines for a productive experience and introduce Zoom at emory.zoom.us, where students can meet synchronously online with others in their group. (Instructors can also meet with their entire class or a specific group.)

As a final note: you will want to go to People and select the tab Project Groups at the top of the page. Once students have sorted into their groups, you want to use this tab to then create groups in Canvas which will allow for separate group workspaces.