Creating Groups Using the Group Generator

Using the Group Generator WebCT will create groups for you automatically and randomly based on your specifications. You can create groups by the number of groups you want or by the number of students you want per group. If you want to use the Group Generator you must delete any existing groups.

If you want each student to have an indivdual folder to upload their work, you create a group for each student. If you have 20 students, you create 20 groups. You can rename the groups to each student's name.

From the Designer Options in Presentations:

  1. Choose Generate groups.
    Action Menu for Group Generator
  2. First, choose the method for creating the groups: number of groups or number of students per group.
    Option screen for Group Generator
  3. Enter a number of students per group or number of groups in the course depending on which option you selected for creating groups.
  4. Choose an option for handling extra students-add extra students or create a new group OR exclude the students so that you can choose a group for them later manually.
  5. Just as with the manual creation of groups, choose whether groups should have their own private discussion area.
  6. Choose whether to include yourself in the group discussion area. If you do not include yourself you will not be able to read postings in that area.
  7. Click the Generate button to have WebCT create your student groups.