eClass

It’s a good idea to wait until student enrolment is stable, approximately around the 3rd week of term. Best practice would be to refer to the Important Dates resource, particularly, the “last date to add a course without permission of instructor”. After this date, we then recommend that you create groups. Chances are there will be very little maintenance after that point.

For maintenance, once per week, the simplest way is to click on the “Participants” link on the left navigation tab, next select the drop-down arrow from the Gear/Cog/Wheel at the right and select “Group.”

First, you may select the “Overview Tab” to get a quick view of students not yet assigned to any group. Next, return to the “Group” tab and select the group you are updating (each group has the number of student members indicated within the bracket), then select the button, “Add/remove users.” New students not yet assigned to a group, appear immediately under the Student heading in the right column, and are indicated by (0). Assign a specific student to a group by clicking on their name in the right column, then selecting the “Add” button. You may select multiple students by holding down the Ctrl button and clicking on each name before you select the “Add” button. Repeat the process to assign students to another group by first selecting the button, “Back to groups.”

Please note that if your course has tutorial sections, separate eClass shells for every tutorial section are available to TAs and the Turn it in activities on eClass. Therefore, if activated there will be no need to create “tutorial” groups for the main course.