CIRT, University of North Florida

The Manage Groups feature allows instructors to create Groups within courses. Instructors can also add, remove, and modify groups from this page. The Instructor has the option of giving the group access to private:

Discussion Board
Virtual Classroom
Group File Exchange
Group Email

Note: The Advanced Group Management is a streamlined alternative to the Manage Groups tool that may be used for adding groups to your Blackboard courses.

To access Manage Groups, click on Manage Groups in the User Management section of the Control Panel:

Click on Add Group to add a group or groups to your course:

Add a Name for the group, a description, select the Option you would like available for the group and choose whether or not to make the group available. Click Submit to Add the Group.

Once a group is added to the course, you may change Group Properties, Add Users to Group, List Users in Group and Remove Users from Group by clicking Modify next to the Group from the Manage Groups page: