{"id":6696,"date":"2018-02-09T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T10:11:19","slug":"canvas-highlights-2-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2018\/02\/09\/canvas-highlights-2-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas Highlights – 2. Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCanvas provides lots of opportunities for students to learn together. One of the features that enables this is Groups. This post provides a brief overview of Canvas Groups and suggests some ways in which teachers and learners may want to use them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Groups and Group Sets in Canvas<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When an instructor creates groups in Canvas they can gather together a number of groups in a Group Set. For example, you might have students working on group presentations, so a Group Set called \u2018Presentation Groups\u2019 could be set up containing 10 groups of students.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are several ways that Canvas enables the creation of groups by tutors (instructors). <\/span><\/p>\n