Organize Your Classroom into Student Groups

What is a student group?

A student group is a segment of your class that can be assigned different content. Student groups are access and managed in the People tab of a teacher's class. You can create a group name and make a selection of students. It's basically a way for you to tag a set of students instead of clicking on students individually, every time for every assignment. Think of it like a contacts group from Gmail.

This sub section, or subgroup, can facilitate group projects, breakouts and clubs with varying levels. This feature is an improvement which impacts classroom management and makes special assignments more feasible to implement. It will also help teachers differentiate performance by groups. 

This feature was announced and soon after released on August, 20, 2024.

How to enable and use student groups?

Google Workspace for Edu administrators will need to ensure they are running the premium tiers of the suite such as Education Plus and Teacher & Learning upgrades. So, if you don't see groups within your "people" page, then this feature in simply unavailable.

From within your specific class, go to People > Students > Groups and + Create group.

For more instructions on the steps to basic setup, consider the official Classroom Help support article.

Student groups settings

Within "People"

• Create group

• Add/remove students (bulk action also available)

• Edit group

• Delete group

• Assign group name, including inserting emoji

Within "Assignments"

• Assign to a group

Tip: expand the accordion on a group to view members