Teams

A team is a group of students in a classroom that can share messages, documents and calendar items.

Features

We provide an easy team builder tool for classes. Faculty can build unlimited number of teams and include students in as many teams as needed. Each team comes with its own:

• Team message board/forum
• Team calendar
• Team document center

Building teams

To go to team builder

Method 1

• From top menu select classroom, classes
• Go to the class in question
• Click on teams from the side menu of the class website

Method 2

• From top menu select classroom, classes, teams
• Select a class

To create a team

• Enter the Team name in one of the empty input boxes on top.
• Repeate this for all teams. If you run out of empty boxes, press save and more empty boxes will be added.
• Press save when done.

To assign students to teams

• Check the box for each student in a team
• Press save.

To rename a team

• Enter a different team name in the input box.
• Press save.

To delete a team

• Enter the word DELETE in the team name box .
• Press save.

Note: A student can be assigned to multiple teams.

What happens after teams are created

• Student will see a list of teams that they belong to under Class Discussions, Documents, and Calendar. That will allow them to post messages to each other (you will also get a copy), share documents, and share a calendar for their project timelines.
• The faculty would see the same, except that all teams are displayed.

See also

• Team messaging
• Course management
• Study groups: An alternative to teams outside of a classroom or among multiple classes.