Use classroom groups in an assignment

Link classroom groups when an assignment should use reusable membership from Classes. The link stays live, so later membership changes in Classes also change the project teams.

The Teams work-mode bar showing Selected students, eight of 27 included, In teams selected, and the current configuration not yet set up. — Who and Students work sit together at the top of Teams. Open Selected students to change the assignment audience before choosing a team source. Select the image to enlarge it.

Who and Students work sit together at the top of Teams. Open Selected students to change the assignment audience before choosing a team source. Select the image to enlarge it.

Open the classroom-group picker

Open a Draft or Upcoming assignment.
Select Teams.
Set Who to everyone in the class or the selected students who should receive the project.
Keep Students work set to In teams.
Choose Use your classroom groups.

Rectangle opens the reusable groups for this class. Groups appear under their set names, with standalone groups in their own section. If the class has no sets, the groups appear as one flat list.

Select groups or a whole set

Select a group card to add or remove that individual group from the selection.
Use the set header action to select every group in that set at once.
When a full set is selected, use the same header action to deselect it.

The set is a selection shortcut. The assignment links the individual classroom groups inside it.

Resolve placement blockers

Rectangle checks the students included under Who against the groups you selected:

Left out: an included student is not in any selected group.
Doubled: an included student is in two or more selected groups.
Added beyond your selection: a selected group contains someone outside Who. That student will be included in the project too.

Add selected groups becomes available only when every included student is on exactly one selected group. Select different groups until the left-out and doubled messages are clear. If the classroom groups do not fit this project, cancel the picker and make project teams instead.

The classroom-group picker in a Draft assignment with a reusable set and overlapping standalone group selected, showing doubled students, extra students outside Who, and a disabled Add selected groups action. — Assign checks the selected classroom groups against Who. Resolve doubled or left-out students before adding groups; named extras will be included in the project. Select the image to enlarge it.

Assign checks the selected classroom groups against Who. Resolve doubled or left-out students before adding groups; named extras will be included in the project. Select the image to enlarge it.

Confirm the live link

After you add the groups, the Teams view shows a Live link message and identifies each team as a classroom group synced with Classes. The placement summary continues to show whether every included student is on one team exactly once.

Use the available actions to:

Change groups and reopen the picker with the current groups selected;
Unlink groups and remove them from this assignment without deleting the classroom groups;
Manage in Classes and open the class’s group area in a new tab.

Change linked membership later

An active assignment no longer has the prelaunch Teams tab. Change the reusable membership in Classes instead. Before a Classes-side edit affects an active project, Rectangle names the project and explains the consequence.

Deleting a linked group can detach that team from an active project. Submitted work tied to the group blocks deletion so the record remains available.

Switch the assignment to individual work

Opening the Individually view does not detach the classroom groups. Select Set as individual work to commit the change. Rectangle confirms the consequence, then unlinks the groups from the assignment. The reusable classroom groups remain in Classes.