What Are Student Groups?
Teachers can divide students in a class to groups either based on their performance on a formative, or by any other desired criteria, and use these set groups to quickly assign formatives to the selected students within them.
Performance Based Student Groups
For performance based Student Groups to be created, at least one formative needs to have been assigned to a class and the students must have submitted it. These performance based Student Groups will be titled according to your account's Thresholds category names. If you haven't named your Thresholds categories yet, please head over to your account's Settings page to do so.
Create Performance Based Student Groups
To create Performance Based Student Groups within a class:
From the assigned and completed formative, navigate to the Insights tab.
Select a class from the dropdown menu at the top of the screen
Click on 'Create Student Groups' below the thresholds distribution of the Overall Performance section
A confirmation banner will appear at the bottom of your screen once the Student Groups have been created
Teacher Selected Student Groups
For teachers to create Student Groups by their own preferred criteria, the students must first be enrolled in the same class within Formative. Teachers will define the Student Group title and add a description to allow for easy identification of each group.
Create Teacher Selected Student Groups
To create teacher selected Student Groups start by navigating to your main Classes tab:
Locate the class on your Classes page and click on it's title
On the Class Management page, select the 'Groups' tab
Click the blue 'Create Group' button
Give your new group a name and add a description
Check mark the students you'd like to add to this group
Click 'Create' to complete Student Group creation
The new group will now be displayed within the Groups tab
Edit or Delete Student Groups
Once the Student Groups have been created, teachers can delete or edit them to their preference. As students performance changes over time, teachers can move students from one performance based Group to another, and even completely remove student groups that are no longer needed. Editing or deleting Student Groups is done on the Class Management page
Click on 'Classes' from the left side menu
Locate and click on the desired class' tile
On the Class Management page, click on the tab 'Groups'
Click the carat at the far right of the grouping's tile to expand the full list
To edit the group's title & description, remove students from the group, or add new students to it
Click on the pencil icon at the bottom of the Group's tile, or select 'Edit' from the triple dots menu on the tile
Type into the title and description fields to edit them (note: you will not be able to save your updates unless both fields are filled out)
Un-check students you wish to remove from the group
Check mark students you wish to add to the group
Click 'Update' to complete and save your edits
To delete Student Groups
Click the triple dots on the Group's tile
Select 'Delete' from the dropdown menu
Click 'Proceed' to confirm the deletion
Assign to Student Groups
Once Student Groups have been created within a class, any formative can be assigned to one group (or more) by utilizing the 'Assign to Student Groups' assign setting:
Click on 'Assign' at the top of the formative
Click the carat to the left of the class' name
Scroll down to the 'Students Management' section
Click the carat to the left of 'Assign to Student Groups'
Expand the list of groups and check-mark the desired one(s)
Click 'Assign' >> the formative will now be assigned only to the students within the selected group(s)
To change the selected assigned groups, click back into the assign settings window by repeating the steps above, check-mark additional group(s) to add them to the assignment or un-check group(s) to remove them from the assignment, and click 'Update' to confirm
