Blackboard Learn: How to Create Group Sets | UAMS Educational Development

1. Under Course Management, click on Users and Groups and select Groups.

Image of Course menu, Course Management with an arrow pointing to Groups.

2. Hover over Create. Under Group Sets, select the method you wish to use to enroll students into the Group Sets. Note: For this example, I will use the Manual Enroll option.

Image of Groups arrea of the course with red circle around Group Set options.

3. Click Manual Enroll. Under Group Information, enter the name of your group sets and description. Next to Group is visible to students, select Yes or No.

Image of area where users will enter the information for the group set. Two arrow disply where to enter the name of the group set and another pointing to the options to make available to students.

4. Under Tool Availability, mark all options as desired.

Image showing all options under Tool Availability with the call out: Important: If you wish for students to record and access session recordings within their groups, select “Allow all group members to create and access session recordings.”

5. Under Module Personalization Settings, you can elect to allow students to personalize their group modules, if desired.

Image of module personalization setting.

6. Under Group Set Options, enter the number of Group Sets you wish to create. If you wish to create Smart Views for each Group Set, select the check box next to “Create Smart View for each Group Set.”

7. When finished click the Submit button in the lower right-hand corner of the page.

8. Next, we will manually add students to our group sets. Under Group Set Enrollments, you can elect to “Hide members already in another group in this set”, if you choose. You can also elect to Randomize Enrollments or you can manually enroll users to the Group Sets in the groups below.

Image of area where instructors will add users to group sets. Two red arrows point to Add Users button under groups one and 2.

Please Note: If you choose to Randomize Enrollments, a pop-up window will open requesting more information. Elect to Randomly enroll only student users or Randomly enroll all users. When finished click the Submit button in the lower right-hand corner of the pop-up window.

Image of randon group enrollments options.

9. If you choose to add users manually to each group, a pop-up window will open asking you to add users to your groups. For my first group, I am adding Student 01 and Student 03. For my second group, I will add Student 02 and Student 04. Click the Submit button when students have been selected for their group.

Image of add users area with red arrow pointing to the submit button in the lower right hand corner of the screen.

10. Once users are added, they will display in their respective groups. To complete the process, click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.

Image of users added to their respective groups a red arrow points to the submit button in the lower right hand corner of the screen.

11. By clicking the Submit button, you will return to the Groups area in your Blackboard course and will see confirmation that the process was successful.