How to assign all students to a single group to use in SpeedGrader

[bgrinstein]

SpeedGrader, accessed froM Assignments, requires "Select Group to Grade" be picked from a pull down menu. By default The menu is empty. One must assign students to Groups. I want to grade all students so I need to create a group that contains all students. I can do so under People, but then need to manually drag students  ONE AT A TIME into the newly created group. This works fine with a few students, not so good for courses with hundreds of students. How do I (the instructor) add all students to a group so I can use SpeedGrader?

[stimme · Accepted solution]

@bgrinstein That behavior is caused by a checkbox in the course Settings > Details tab. If you are able to deactivate that setting, you can save the time of making a group for all students.

How do I enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group? 

[mzimmerman]

Hi @bgrinstein 

Is the assignment that you're trying to grade set as a Group assignment in the assignment settings?

The only reason you should be asked for a group to grade in Speedgrader is if what you are grading is a group assignment.  And if it's a group assignment, students should have been assigned to the groups before the students submitted the assignment.

[bgrinstein]

>> Is the assignment that you're trying to grade set as a Group assignment in the assignment settings?

Not sure what you mean. Assignments are arranged into Assignment Groups. For example, I have "Reading Quizzes" assignments. And I have other assignment groups. These are not people groups. See first attached screenshot.

In my assignments The box under  "Group Assignment BOX This is a group assignment" is NOT checked. The only reference to People is under Assign Access (for which I have Assign to "Everyone").

So you "The only reason ..."  statement does not seem to be correct.

Help?

[mzimmerman]

Where in Speedgrader are you seeing "Select Group to grade"?

[bgrinstein]

See attached screenshot of one of my assignments, top right corner: "Select Group to Grade"

[stimme · Accepted solution]

@bgrinstein That behavior is caused by a checkbox in the course Settings > Details tab. If you are able to deactivate that setting, you can save the time of making a group for all students.

How do I enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group? 

[mzimmerman]

Thanks for pointing that out, @stimme 

In the Settings > Course Details screen, the setting looks like this:

[bgrinstein · Accepted solution]

Thanks! This solved it. (Not sure how that was selected in Settings>Details to begin with, but that's now irrelevant)