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A significant body of research supports the use of collaborative learning and its benefits, with students perceiving a wide variety of benefits ranging from deeper learning to increased communication and teamwork skills. In Canvas, students can use groups as a collaborative tool to work with classmates on group projects and assignments.   


Groups

  • Instructors can facilitate the creation of groups and manually or automatically assign students to groups within a group set.

  • Students are allowed to create their own groups for collaboration.

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For either kind of group, Canvas provides a group space with various collaborative tools

  • Discussions 

  • Collaborations 

  • Files 

  • Announcements 

Within Groups, students can:

  • Store and share documents in Files. 

  • Start a Discussion.

  • Send an Announcement. 

  • Create group collaborations. 

Within instructor-created Groups, You, as an instructor, can:

  • Facilitate projects or tasks so that students can be encouraged to communicate and iterate on documents by groups. 

  • Assign students manually or automatically or allow themselves to sign up.

  • Assign assignments to specific groups.

    • Offer different due dates and availability for groups.

    • Assign grades to groups.

  • Create graded or ungraded group discussions.


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