Can Groups ever be set to be able to view other Groups' posts?

[lopezjamie]

hello 🙂

Trying to see if there's a way for Groups can view each others' posts in a Discussion. I understand this goes against some of the setting of Groups, but is there a way?

Many thanks,

J

[laura-harste]

I'm just guessing what I would do, but could you just move the students into another group for a day/hour/week to see what the other group is doing?  Then you can move them back to their own group.  It would involve using fancy paper and pencil to remind yourself who goes back into the original groups, but it would work.

[chriscas]

This is an interesting idea.  I just wanted to throw out a caution statement for the community on this though.  If the group set was used for anything but the discussion in question, this could let students see work and potentially grades of classmates and could end up messing up the gradebook too with group assignment weirdness.  For just an ungraded group discussion, this would seem workable though :).

-Chris

[KaelynBullock]

Some teachers set up a separate discussion where a member of the group summarizes the main points of the discussion that took place in their groups. They could probably even run the posts through ChatGPT and have it summarize for them (so it isn't added work on the students to post there).