Groups

What is the Groups Tool?

Your instructor may use groups to organize students’ work on projects and assignments, or create special work areas for students with assigned work.

Students can belong to multiple groups within the same course; you may belong to a group for class projects, a group for special interest discussions, and a group for advanced users. Each group can have its own discussion forums, dropbox, and locker area to work in. You may be asked to submit an assignment to a dropbox as part of a group.

Accessing the Groups Tool

The Groups tool is one of the links found on the default navigation bar of your CourseLink course site and can be accessed directly from that link.

Location of the Groups link on a face-to-face course site

For Distance Education (DE) courses, the Groups link appears under the drop-down menu of the Tools link on the navigation bar (provided that the course is using Groups).