Natalie Forrest 

 

 Yes, I was trying to make the sharing space something that was repeated in every class but the students only saw their particular class. 

 

Great! This is how classes work by default, so no worries there.

 

 No, I'm not planning to divide the groups further. I usually only get about 4-  5 students at a time, but often run multiple classes of the same course with different start dates.

 

OK. But students would work individually, right? They would all have the same tasks. In this case, I don't think you need Groups at all. Please note  that a group is not the same as class (on OpenLearning.)

 

Alenka Prezelj said:
I'm trying to figure out if you need groups in the first place. This is usually used with large classes for project work. Please let me know and then we can continue to figure out what the best solution for you might be.

What kind of activities are you planning?

 I'd like to have a specific place for the students of each class to share their responses/discoveries from their activity and have each student respond to everyone in their group/class. I'd like it to be organized so that it's easy to find (preferably in the module itself) and easy to follow for them and for me.

Ideally each module has it's own share space.  I've attached a photo of a module. #4 Share Your Senses is where I'd like people to post their responses to the activity and then respond to classmates.

The activities are applied eco-pyschology, so they have to go out into Nature, then report back their understandings and then ask questions, maybe post a photo of their work..etc... Everyone has to respond to other group members in order to receive completion for the module.

 

OK I think I understand. You can put these activities (I assume the students will mostly post some text, maybe submit some documents or images) on whichever page you want. What they submit will be visible in the gallery. 

For your Introduction page, instead of asking them to introduce themselves in "Group", you could ask them to do that either in the comment section (you can also make posting a comment obligatory in Page settings), or use a Post text widget. I will create one just to show you how it works. (you can remove it) Underneath you will see the Gallery where all submissions from this task (or page, depending on the settings) are collected. There's also Gallery on the left-side menu where ALL submissions (from all pages) are collected and can also be filtered.

Now, let's say you'd like your students to reflect on 2.Senses Reading. Again, you could ask them to share their thoughts as a comment, or again use a Post a text widget. (I'll do that for you as an example as well)

Students can also read each other's reflections and comment on them.

There's a whole lot other widgets that you can use, feel free to explore and try. For photos, there's a Post a file widget, for example.

 

Hope this helped! :)