You can help students get their group project on the right track by showing them how to organize projects with group tools found in most LMSs.
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Love them or hate them, group projects are essential to learning. They should not be discarded if you are teaching in an online environment. With the current COID-19 pandemic, who isn’t teaching online.
Your LMS has tools that will make it easier to facilitate group projects as well as encourage communication and participation. Use these LMS tools to create your student groups as well as provide students with collaboration tools to help them succeed. Most LMSs provide group tools for file sharing, discussion boards, email, page creation, and virtual meetings.
This week we are going to take a look at why you would want to have your students participate in group projects, common tools found in two LMSs, and strategies for successfully implementing the tools.
Additional Reading
- How-to Make Group Work Collaborative In Online Courses: Four Strategies
- Strategies for effective group work in the Online Class
- Designing Effective Team Projects in Online Courses
- Blackboard – Course Groups
- Blackboard: Groups
- Canvas – Course Groups
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