Groups Outside of Groupwork

[eric_evans1]

I understand that "groups" are used when you want to assign groupwork. However, a need has arisen to create groups of students outside of the traditional groupwork.

Currently, and for the foreseeable future, we will be staggering our classes with some students seated in the room on one day (e.g. Mondays) and the other half of the students seated in the room on another day (e.g. Wednesdays). As such, we need to setup separate due dates for the "Monday group" from the "Wednesday group".

The assigned tasks are still individual, but we need separate due dates for the two groups of students.

Yes, we can go in and manually add the students one at a time in the assignment. However, that becomes problematic for large course sections with numerous assignments.

We need a way that we can create groups and then just select them from the "Assign" list.

I know this can be done if it is a true "groupwork" assignment. However, we need it for independent assignments as well.

[Stef_retired]

@eric_evans1 

Thanks for sharing this idea. Schools typically manage courses that have the same content but different meeting schedules by creating sections, and then differentiating due dates by section. Have you discussed this possibility with the local Canvas admin for your district?

[eric_evans1]

@Stef_retired Thank you for your insight. Regretfully, we are already using sections to differentiate the different sections of the courses at our university. Those sections are linked to our SIS.

We need to create "sections" inside of the sections we already have, which can't be done.

[Stef_retired]

Thanks for the quick reply, @eric_evans1 ! That's the topic of conversation at  Create assignment for groups of students where sec... , so please add your rating and comment to that idea; we'll archive this one to remove the duplication and keep threads unified.