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Creating groups - Blackboard Tutorial
From the course: Blackboard 9.x Essential Training: Instructors
Creating groups
To create a group of students within your Blackboard course, access your course and then on your course menu click on Groups. If you don't see a link to Groups there, you can actually add a tool link to Groups, or scroll down and under Users and Groups click on Groups. Finally, choose whether or not you want to create just one group or a set of groups. Now before we do that I want to show you a secret. I'm going to click on Group Settings. Blackboard 9 out of the box gives the students the ability to create their own groups, so they can have their own study groups that they can create within Blackboard. These groups are sort of their own little walled garden. They have their own set of tools and only the members of the groups can see this. If you don't want your students to be able to create their own little private study groups, you want to turn that feature off. So let's go and create a group now and show you what I'm talking about. I'm going to create just one single group. I've…
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