Groups in Aula are a great way to split students either automatically or manually into project groups. To facilitate group collaboration, when creating groups you can automatically place your students into corresponding group conversations which will appear in their Messages panel.
- Create Set of Groups
- Create Groups
- Drop Down View
- Conversations in Groups
- Edit Groups
- Search for Participants
- Export Group Sets
Create Set of Groups
- In your space, click on the People icon.
- Select the Groups tab.
- Click on the New Set of Groups button in the top right.
- Enter the name and choose the visibility of the set. Confirm with Create set.
Create Groups
There are 3 ways in which you can create groups. They are:
- In the newly created group set, click on Add new group to set.
- Search and select relevant participants. You can search by name, email, and student ID.
- Once done, click Save.
- Follow steps 1 and 2 to create as many groups as you like.
- In the newly created group set, click on Auto-generate groups.
- Enter the number of groups you'd like to create and the number of students per group.
- Confirm with Create groups.
- In the newly created group set, click on Create groups with a CSV file.
- The CSV must include 2 columns with titles 'Group name' and 'Email address' respectively.
- You can drag and drop or select a file from your computer and click on next.
- Once the CSV is upload, a pop up will show you the students who are excluded, if any. Finally click on create groups.
Drop Down View
With the drop-down view directly accessible from the page, it's easier to view your groups at once and switch back and forth between them.
Conversations In Groups
While creating Groups, you can automatically create conversations to facilitate group collaboration:
- Toggle the Create group conversation option.
- If you'd like to be present in these conversations alongside students, make sure you click on Add yourself and toggle on Add educators in this group to conversations.
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Note
You will be unable to view a conversation if you are not added to a group, despite having added other educators in this group and having the conversations toggle enabled.
Edit Groups
Once groups are created, you can click on the pencil icon in the top right to change the makeup of the group or to delete it.
Note
Once students' have made submissions to the group assignment, you cannot edit the group. If you'd like to edit the group, you'd need to delete all the submissions

Search for Participants
Search for participants in groups using any of the below:
- First name
- Last name
- Full name (first and last)
- Student ID (if supplied by the institution)
- Email Address
To search for participants, you should:
- Click on the Search for participants search box within the Groups tab.
- Type the participant's name, ID or email.

Export Group Sets
If needed, you can export your groups into a CSV file directly from your Aula space. This will display participants organized by groups. To do this:
- Click on the People icon.
- Select the Groups tab.
- Click on the Download CSV icon in the top right of the set of your choice.

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