How Do I Create Student Groups in Blackboard?

Creating student groups can help your sort and manage large groups of students more effectively. Using groups is useful for emailing, discussion board and collaboration. To create student groups:

• From the Control Panel click on ‘Manage Groups' under User Management.
• Click on ‘Add Group'.
• Type a name for the group and if desired, a description.
• Check the ‘Group Options' that you wish to be available to the group (I recommend selecting all of them).
• Click ‘Submit' and ‘OK'.
• To add students to the group click on the ‘Modify' button next to the specific group.
• Click on ‘Add Users to Group'.
• Without entering anything in the Search field click on the ‘Search' button to show the list of enrolled students.
• Select the students you wish to add to the group by checking the box next to their name.
• Click ‘Submit' and ‘OK'.

To add more groups repeat the steps above.