Faculty can use Bb's Groups function to divide students into groups. Groups act like mini-course shells and student groups can participate collaboratively by participating in virtual classroom, discussion boards and email as well as file-sharing. Student groups can be used to encourage collaboration and participation among students in one section, or can be used to bridge sections.

An instructor teaching two sections of the same course might choose to mount one course shell and to divide the students of different sections into Groups. Faculty mulling how to handle multi-section courses can use this general rule of thumb:

• Content-heavy courses which tend not to take advantage of the communication features of Bb are usuually better sharing one course shell and dividing sections into Groups
• Communication-heavy courses might be better off having seperate shells and use Groups to sub-divide individual sections

1. Add a Group

From the Control Panel, click on the Manage Groups link within the User Management area in the upper right.
Next, click the Add Group button to, y'know, add a group . . .

	After clicking the Add Group button you will be shunted to a page that asks you to enter the group name (mandatory) and description (optional)
	Choose among the group options to enable: Discussion Board, Virtual Classroom File Exchange, and E-mail. And remember to check the Yes radio button in order to make the group visible to students.

And don't forget to complete the operation by clicking SUBMIT!



2. Modify/Remove Groups

Once the group is created one may modify it by acceeing the Groups page in Control Panel, then clicking on the Modify button:

One may edit the group properties (name, description, and tools -- see Add Group, above) and may add, list, and remove group users



The dialogue boxes for modifying group users all bear the standard display:

And once one has added a Group, then Modified a Group, there is only one thing left to do -- Remove a Group!

Click this link to obtain help: http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/bb/hd/