Improvements to the Groups Tool

Several improvements to the Groups tool will take effect on June 17th in BOLT.

 

Save time in BOLT with these improvements:

 

Automatic creation of discussion topics for new groups.

If you have set up discussion areas for groups in a category, and new groups are created as new students enroll in the course, discussion topics for those groups will be created automatically.

 

Automatic descriptive naming of discussion topics.

If you choose to set up discussion areas for groups in the Groups tool, topics will automatically be named in the format [Category Name] - [Group Prefix] #.

 

For example, if you have a category with 3 groups called Research Project and a Group prefix of Team, your discussion topics would be:

• Research Project - Team 1
• Research Project - Team 2
• Research Project - Team 3