Creating Group Assignments

As part of an assignment submission, Canvas lets you set up an assignment as a group assignment. If you want students to work together on the assignment as a group, check the This is a Group Assignment checkbox [1].

Some instructors choose to grade students individually even though they are participating in a group assignment. If you want to assign grades individually, check the Assign Grades to Each Student Individually checkbox [2]. Then select the the set of groups you want to use for the assignment from the Group Set drop-down menu [3].

Notes:

• If you do not already have a group set created, Canvas will prompt you to create one. However, if you create a group set with self sign-up or manual group assignments, you will not be able to use the group set until users have been added to the subgroups.
• Group Information does not apply to Not Graded assignments.
• If you are creating a differentiated assignment, groups are not supported and may create unexpected results in Canvas.