You can choose whether participants should submit in groups. The group type can be determined through the Details pane in the basic settings of a flow.
In this article:
- Manage Groups
- Individual Group Settings
It is also possible for participants to form a one-person group. You can either set up groups and allocate participants to them (see Manage Groups below) or let the participants form groups on their own.
Participants can only form groups themselves on FLOWassign and FLOWhandin assessments.
If the group form is changed after the flow has started, all participant submissions will be deleted and the participants must submit again.
- No Group Type: Participants are not supposed to submit in groups. All participants will submit separately. This is set as a default on the licence.
- Groups Submission: The participants on the flow need to form groups. Each group makes a joint submission. Each group member can submit and withdraw on behalf of the entire group, and only one paper can be submitted. Participants will receive feedback via the marking tool and there will be only one similarity report.
- Individual Submissions: The participants on the flow need to form groups. Each participant submits individually.
- Group with shared submission and individual grading: The participants on the flow need to form groups. Each group makes a joint submission. Annotations and feedback comments are common to the group but each participant receives an individual grade.
Manage Groups
Once you have chosen a group type, a new column will appear on each of the tabs within the participation overview where you can sort participants by their groups. If you as a manager do not manage the groups, participants are allowed to form the groups themselves.
Click on Manage Groups to get to the setup.
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Search and display by full name, primary email address, or organisation ID. This will highlight and jump to the participant in both the Participants not in a group and Groups list.
- Group Settings: Allows for a recommended minimum and maximum numbers of group members that should be in a group to be defined. Participants who invite numbers of participants outside of these parameters will be shown a warning message. Group settings also allows the setting of when participants are able to form groups i.e. at flow activation, at participation start (set as the default), or never (participants are not able to form groups and this is to be done by the manager).
- Reallocate equally: (Re-)Assign participants equally but randomly across all current groups. Using the burger menu next to the Reallocate Equally button offers the option to Reset Groups (remove participants from all groups without deleting the groups) or Delete all groups and reset the group structure.
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Add Group: Click the Add Group button to add a single empty group. Use the burger menu to add a single group or multiple groups. When adding multiple groups, choose whether only empty groups should be added or if participants should be assigned to added groups as well.
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Participants not in a group: You can drag single participants into groups or tick off multiple participants and move them to a specific group.
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Look at the next item for more information on individual group settings.
Individual Group Settings
- Using unique IDs or email addresses in a comma-separated text list can be copied and pasted into this field. Participants will then be added automatically to the group from the list.
- Displays whether a group is locked and cannot be edited by participants and the number of participants in this group.
- Delete group if empty.
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Edit the group number, add an optional group name and set whether participants can edit groups.
- Remove individual participants from the group.