Staff Guide: If you set up Groups for students with Additional Examination Requirements (AERs) or special considerations, you can use the groups to display different assessment links via adaptive release and filter the Gradebook.
In many cases it is better to use Accommodations, Exemptions or Exceptions to manage the extra time or attempts for students. See our guide Accommodations, Exemptions and Exceptions.
Set up groups to identify students with different requirements
You can also import groups from CSV file. Please see our guide to Groups.
Create a Manual Enrol Group Set
- Select the Groups from the top course menu.
- Select New Group Set.
- Leave the visibility of the group set as Hidden from Students.
- Leave the Group Students by Custom group.
- Use the purple plus to create the desired number new groups in the group set.
- Select the three dots (…) to the right of a group to delete it.
- Hover your cursor over the group name and select the pen icon to edit the group name.
- We recommend creating group in the group set for each AER, and also for students who do not have an AER.
- Select a student (or multiple students) and then select the three dots (…) to the right of their name. Allocate them to a desired group.
- Once all students are allocated to an AER or no-AER group, save the group set.
Show content to different groups using Release Conditions
See also: Blackboard Ultra – Content Visibility and Release Conditions
Once you have created the Blackboard test, assignment or Turnitin LTI assignment you can apply release conditions by group.
Do not use Assign to Groups for managing AER and SSR extra time. Selecting this in the Assignment Settings means that the student work together on group submissions.
If you assign a discussion to groups, students only see discussion posts from others within their groups.