Option to set default groups
In addition to randomized grouping for group workspace activities, allow teachers the option to create default teams ahead of time. This way students can automatically be placed in a group with others at their table; teachers don't have to take extra time to do this from the random created groups.
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Anonymous commented
I have heard this feedback from teachers several times. They love the way Lumio assigns groups workspace teams automatically. It often leads to very intentional and quick grouping in face-to-face classrooms.
What is missing is the ability to hold those groups from activity to activity.
The easy way to do this would be to introduce a button on the group workspace page before launching it that says "Use same Workspace groups from the previous activity."
That little feature would be so helpful for teachers!
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Tamara Ciaciura commented
For differentiation, this is vital!
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William Deboeser commented
^^This!! This would be so helpful that way I don't have to hurriedly make groups mid class or stop instruction to put my 30+ students back in order.
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Heather Koleszar commented
When you are adding a group activity to a Lumio lesson, it creates groups. If you create another group activity later on in the lesson, it does not save the groups from earlier in the lesson. It would be great to have a choice--keep same groups from before or create new groupings!
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Ben Pisani commented
It would be nice if there was an option to have students "grouped together" in preset groupings instead of Lumio automatically sorting the students when there is a collaborative activity - this would be really beneficial for primary school classes
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misticoaqp077 commented
It is difficult to put together the same groups on different slides. There should be an option to keep the same groups when doing collaborative work.
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Gabrielle Ford commented
It would be awesome if the groups I assign in the first collaborative workspace would apply to all other collaborative work spaces in the lesson. That would save alot of time!
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Dr. Morris commented
I would also like to rearrange groups after students have started. Please keep in mind that sometimes students enter the class late. Right now these students are left out of the activities.
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Anonymous commented
I love the fact that SLSO shuffles the kids into groups. That is great depending on the activity. Is there a way of pre-setting a group of kids?
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Anonymous commented
When using the group learning activity it is very difficult to separate 30 kids into groups every time you want them to work together on an activity. We often asks kids to work together in the same group 4-5 times a class period. When we have to re-assign the groups every time it is very time consuming! If we were able to keep the same groups for the entire lesson or pre-assign groups before class starts this would save a lot of time.
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Ashley commented
When posting 10 workspace activities it is incredibly frustrating to have to re-do the groups on every single page. It wastes valuable time.
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Erin commented
I'd like to be able to set groups on a collaborative work space activity based upon seating charts instead of random heterogeneous groups and moving afterwards. I like the heterogeneous groups for some activities but not all.