Creating collaborative activities

Collaborative activities are assignments where learners work together in small groups. For these activities, you need to divide the class into mini-groups, each working on the respective assignment. The collaborative activities feature is managed on either the Scheduling or Class splits tabs of the Courses menu.

IMPORTANT: Learners must be enrolled in the course that includes collaborative activities beforehand. A term must be specified for the enrollment, otherwise it's impossible to create collaborative activities.

To create a collaborative activity for your group of learners:

1. In the Learn management portal, click in the upper-left corner.
2. Go to Teaching > Courses.
   
3. In the courses list, double-click the required course to start editing.
4. In the leftmost bar, click the Scheduling icon.
   
5. In the Collaborative column for the activity, select the Collaborative flag for the required activity.
6. In the Class split column for the activity, click No split > Create split.
7. Specify the class split parameters:
   • Name — the name of the class splitting
   • Description — a short description of the class split.
   • Number of mini-groups — the number of mini-groups you want to divide the class into.
   • Learner capacity per mini-group — the number of learners each mini-group should include.
8. Click Create.
9. Add enrolled users to the created mini-groups: to do it, either select a group for each user (1 in the screenshot below) or select the users and click Add to group for the respective mini-group (2).
   
10. Select the activities to which to apply the created group split: either on the Scheduling tab, in the Class split column specify the created split for the activity or on Class splits tab, on the Apply to activities sub-tab specify the activity.