How do I put students in groups?
You will learn how to create groups of users/students in your course in TITANium.
You can create groups and add students manually or you can let TITANium auto-create groups for you.
Follow these steps to manually create groups.
1.1. Enter your TITANium course.
1.2. Click on Participants in the Nav drawer.
1.3. Click on the Gear icon on the Participants page.
1.4. Click on Groups in the Gear menu.
1.5. Click on the Create Group button.
1.6. Type a Group name.
1.7. Enter an Id number and description if desired.
The ID number is for communicating with outside vendor applications.
1.8. Enter an Enrollment key if desired.
The Enrollment key is a code you can give users, so that they can enter a group by themselves using the code.
1.9. Upload a group photo, if desired.
1.10. Click on Save changes.
1.11. Select the group to which you want to add participants.
After creating the rest of the groups that you wish to have in your course, it is then time to add students to each group.
1.12. Click on the Add/remove users button.
1.13. Select the users you want to add to the group.
You may add multiple users to your group by holding down the Ctrl key and then clicking on each user you want to add to that group.
1.14. With the desired users selected, click on the Add button.
1.15. Those users are now in that group.
Continue until all users have been added the appropriate groups. You may add a student to multiple groups if desired. However, you should use Groupings to organize the groups.
Follow these steps to auto-create groups.
2.1. Enter your TITANium course.
2.2. Click on Participants in the Nav drawer.
2.3. If the Nav drawer is not visible, click on the Hamburger icon.
2.4. Click on the Gear icon on the Participants page.
2.5. Click on Groups in the Gear menu.
2.6. Click on the Auto-Create groups button.
2.7. Establish a Naming scheme
Use the @ symbol to create groups with names containing letters. This symbol will generate groups named Group A, Group B, Group C, etc.
Use the # symbol to create groups with names containing numbers. This symbol will generate groups named Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, etc.
2.8. Select Number of groups from the Auto create based on drop down menu.
In the Auto create based on field, choose Number of groups to create a certain number of groups. Or, to have a specific number of students in each group, choose Members per group.
2.9. Type in the number of groups to create.
In the Group/member count field, type in the number of groups that you want to auto-create. If you selected to create a certain number of groups instead, then enter the desired number of groups.
2.10. Select the Group member options.
For Select members with role: choose Student (default).
For Select members from grouping, the default is None, but if you have already created any groupings they will be available to choose from.
For Allocate members, randomly is the default, but you can also select to group alphabetically or by ID number.
The three checkboxes allow you to prevent the last group from being too small. You can choose to ignore users who are already in a group and you can choose to include only users whose enroll is active (checked by default).
2.11. Select New grouping.
2.12. Type a title for the new grouping.
2.13. Click on Submit.
2.14. The students have now been placed into groups as desired.
Article Summary
You have now learned how to create groups of students within your course in TITANium.