Using Group Home Pages effectively

[laurawidenor]

Hi everyone!

I'm an instructional designer and I am hoping I might glean some knowledge and guidance from other Canvas users on effectively using the Group Homepage sites throughout an entire semester. We've just switched to Canvas so this is a new tool and we'd like to create a culture of using this space for student team interactions.

Has anyone successfully used the Group Homepage sites for all student team interactions? What instructions did you provide to students? What was the student feedback from this? What was the instructor feedback from this?

I'd appreciate any feedback and instructions you may have templatized for explaining groups to students and giving them the parameters for using this area.  Thanks!