Category: Group Work

Students can create (and even record) their own Zoom meetings. Google Chat and Google Meet can also be useful for small groups of students to collaborate with each other. Students can also use tools they are already familiar with (applications like Discord, WeChat, and even Facebook Messenger) to communicate and collaborate on projects.

For collaborative work on a single project, all of the G Suite applications (including Documents, Sheets and Slides) are easy to share and collaborate on. Students can also collaborate on presentations by using groups in VoiceThread. For video editing, WeVideo is a web-based editor that also allows for student collaboration.

Group Assignments in VoiceThread

The following directions will guide students through handing in a group assignment on VoiceThread. Students can work collaboratively on a VoiceThread assignment. One person will need to need to create a VT to share with the rest of the group. It just takes a couple of easy steps. One person needs to create a VT from the Moodle home page...

Activities/Assignments/Asynchronous/Community Building/Group Work/Pedagogy/Presentations

Create a Transcript of a Recorded Zoom Meeting

Creating a written transcript from interviews and presentations is now possible when using the closed captioning feature in Zoom. Make sure you are using Macalester’s Zoom account by logging in at macalester.zoom.us. The host may enable Live Transcript by selecting the CC icon on the bottom of the Zoom screen Select Enable Auto-Transcription If you would like to a running...

Access and Inclusion/Activities/Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Group Work/Lecture/Presentations/Sharing Media

Using Groups in Perusall

Overview In Perusall, you can organize students into groups that limit whose comments they see. This can be useful when you have a large class and want to reduce the volume of annotations any single student is seeing, or if you want to create smaller cohorts where students might assume certain roles (skeptic, synthesizer, etc.) as readers and responders. You...

Asynchronous/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

Engineering Student Collaboration and Group Work

Knox College colleague Eric Dickens, in collaboration with his colleague Cate Denial, also from Knox, facilitated a session focused on student collaboration and group work. Watch the ACM workshop and use the additional resources to learn how to encourage remote student engagement and collaboration.

Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

Jamboard Ideas

Britt Abel shares ideas for how to teach with Jamboard, a free digital whiteboard used for remote collaboration.

Faculty & Staff Stories/Group Work/Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Language Learning/Lecture/Synchronous/Whiteboard

Creating an Online Exhibition

Naomi Sussman shares how she adapted her students’ development of a prototype exhibit for the San Diego Old Courthouse into an online exhibit using Google Sites and other online resources. Working together online, her students created the Toolkit of Resistance: An Online Exhibit Prepared by “The Native Southwest” in conjunction with the San Pasqual Band of Kumeyaay.

Digital Projects/Faculty & Staff Stories/Group Work

Online Exhibitions 101

Online exhibitions can always make for dynamic class projects, but they’re especially useful when in-person class might not be possible. Watch this video by Aisling Quigley to learn what kind of online exhibition to use in your course.

Digital Projects/Group Work/Presentations

Slack

You can use Slack to create a communal workspace where users can chat or share documents and links.

Asynchronous/Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work/Synchronous