How students can create their own groups within Blackboard for work, study, and socialising

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With the new semester about to start in the UK I wanted to put together a short video that explains how students can create their OWN groups in any Blackboard course.

This can be really useful for creating impromptu and dynamic groups on a course that can be used for any purpose, for example working on a project, getting a team together, or just socialising.  

I can see many benefits in the current COVID-19 era for this approach as it allows students to make use of some of the tools within a VLE without requiring the instructor to set it up.

Instructors can of course disable the setting if they wish.

Here's the video:




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