Teacher

To access, create, edit, and manage groups, open the Manage Groupings screen:

1. Select the desired course from the Main Menu.
2. Open the People tool for that course.
3. Click Tools in the toolbar and select Manage groupings.

4. From this screen, you can:
   • Select the Grouping you want to edit.
   • Click the Copy grouping button next to a grouping you want to duplicate.
   • Click the Delete grouping button next to a grouping you want to eliminate.
   • Click Add grouping to create a new grouping.

The Create and edit groupings section above shows you how to access the Manage Groups screen. With this screen, you can:

1. Edit the grouping Name.
2. Choose to limit each person to membership in one group.
3. Add Groups to the grouping.
4. Click the pencil icon (edit) to change group names or delete groups from the grouping.
5. Choose how to display student performance WITH Score display options (this selection impacts some of the Group Assignment options in the Generate Groups screen):
   • Select Show course % to use overall performance.
   • Select Show activity % and choose the desired course in the dropdown that appears next to it to use performance on a specific activity.
6. Clear All students from the assigned groups.
7. Automatically Generate Groups (Step 5).
8. Move students between groups by clicking the cell that aligns with the student and the group you want to place them in.
9. Save all changes.

Use Buzz to automatically divide students into groups:

1. Select the desired course from the Main Menu.
2. Open the People tool for that course.
3. Click Tools in the toolbar and select Manage groups.

4. Click Add grouping.

5. Enter a Group prefix; each group that is generated uses this prefix and a number to indicate that they’re part of this Group Set.
6. Choose your Group creation method.
   • If you choose Fixed number of groups, you need to specify the number of groups.
   • If you choose Target number of students per group, you need to specify the number of students per group.
7. Choose the desired Group assignment method from the dropdown list:
   • Random assignment.
   • Round Robin assigns the first student in the list to the first group, the second student to the second group, and so on. If there are only three groups, the fourth student is assigned to the first group, the fifth student to the second, and so on.
   • Alphabetical by first name.
   • Homogeneous by performance groups students with those who have the most similar scores (Learn more).
   • Heterogeneous by performance evenly distributes performance, so groups end up with a balanced range of scores (Learn more).
   • Heterogeneous by performance - Top/Bottom groups the highest-scoring students with the lowest-scoring, then the next highest with the next lowest, and so on (Learn more).
   • Heterogeneous by performance - 1st Q/3rd Q; 2nd Q/4th Q groups highest-scoring students with next-to-lowest-scoring students, then next-to-highest-scoring students with the next lowest-scoring, and so on (Learn more).  
8. Click Generate.

Buzz gives you the option of generating groups based on performance using:

• Show course % to use overall performance.
• Show activity % to use performance on a specific activity. This options requires you to select the desired activity in the dropdown that appears.

To change this setting:

1. Open Score display options from the vertical menu in the toolbar.

2. Select the desired radio button and click OK.

3. Click Generate groups and follow steps 5-8, above using one of the "by performance" options in the Group assignment dropdown (step 7).