Create and manage group assignments in Advanced Assessments

Group assignments allow learners to collaborate and submit work together. You can evaluate the group collectively in Advanced Assessments, providing shared feedback and grades.

Create Group Assignments with Advanced Assessments

Group assignments are enabled through the Groups tool in Course Admin.

1. Create your groups and categories using the Groups tool: Course Admin > Groups. Skip this step if your groups already exist.
2. Ensure that the d2l.Tools.Activities.AdvancedAssessmentsEnabled and d2l.Tools.Dropbox.GroupDropboxCreationRedirectOptIn configuration variables are enabled. On the legacy assignment creation page, click Try Now in the dropdown to use the new Group Assignment workflow in the new assignment creation experience.
   

   Important: Advanced Assessments does not support activity creation through the legacy Groups workflow. If you create an assignment using the legacy tool, Advanced Assessment options will not be available until you return to the Edit Assignment page from the Assignments or Content tool.

3. When creating an assignment, select Group Assignment under the Submission & Completion section.
   
4. Under Evaluators in the Evaluation & Feedback settings, click Select Evaluators to begin triggering the workflows for Advanced Assessments.
   
5. To complete the setup of your group assignment in Advanced Assessments, continue through the workflow to:
   1. Configure evaluators
   2. Assign instructors to group allocations
   3. Select publishers
   4. Select One Shared Evaluation or Multi-Evaluation

Switch between Individual and Group Assignments

During the assignment creation process, if you switch between Individual and Group Assignment after interacting with the Manage Allocations dialog, a confirmation prompt appears. This prevents allocations from being accidentally overwritten.

Important: Switching between Individual and Group Assignments removes all previously adjusted Advanced Assessment settings. Switching group categories removes only the allocation mappings in the Manage Allocations dialog; other Advanced Assessment settings are not affected. Switching between individual and group assignment types is disabled after learner submissions are made.

Manage Allocations

Important: The d2l.Tools.Groups.RestrictCrossSectionGroups configuration variable controls whether evaluator access to cross-section groups is restricted. When this configuration variable is enabled, only evaluators who are enrolled in the course and have access to all associated sections can view group assignments and evaluate cross-section groups. This restriction is not enforced. To avoid evaluation gaps and ensure continuity of grading workflows, any instructor enrolled in the course is permitted to evaluate any group, regardless of section enrollment.

The Manage Allocation dialog allows you to review groups in the course and assign instructors to evaluate each group.

You can do the following:

• Filter users by section
• View and sort groups (A–Z or Z–A)
• Assign evaluators per group

When filtering by section, instructors enrolled in that section are visually identified by a tag under their name.

To ensure no group is left without an evaluator, all enrolled instructors can evaluate all groups by default.

To review group membership, click the number of learners displayed for each group in the Manage Allocations dialog.

Note: Manual publisher selection does not require an instructor to be enrolled in all sections.