Ability to Manually Assign Students to Groups before publishing course

[taylorbs]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

I have 200+ students enrolled in a course that I want to have fully designed and developed before publishing.  I do not want to have to scramble around after the course is published to manually assign the students to their working groups.  Even if it is super easy to drag and drop the names into the groups, I have a ton of work to do, and being able to do this work in advance would be a huge help.

[buellj]

Funny you posted this today! I just ran into this for the first time while supporting a canvas course built around our pre-major program. Instructors need to be able to set up groups prior to courses being published.

[scottdennis]

Just a reminder that this idea will open for vote on August 5th, which is one week from tomorrow.

[kona]

 @scottdennis ​, not sure if this needs to go up for vote or not. Per the conversation at the end of this guide - How do I manually assign students to Groups? - "Assigning students to groups is actually a bug fix and is going to be updated shortly. This change will allow students to be added to groups in both published and unpublished courses. We'll let you know when that bug has been completed. Thank you! Erin"

[scottdennis]

Nice catch, Kona.  A fix for this bug was deployed to beta as of yesterday.  I'll go ahead and update the status of this feature idea.

[kona]

Wow! Missed that! How awesome!

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to  @taylorbs  for submitting this idea, as well as,  @buellj ​ &  @kona  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the Canvas!