Community & collaboration
Group work
A shared real-time workspace with a method library (83 methods), timer, groups, voting, AI assistant, submission and assessment.
目的#
Group work succeeds with structure: a suitable method, a clear time, visible results. The workspace brings everything along and works in the lecture hall as well as online.
使い方#
クリック手順Group workNew workspace
- 1Open “Group work”: all workspaces you belong to, with status (in progress, submitted, assessed) (図 1).
図 1 Your own workspaces with role and status: in progress, submitted or assessed. - 2Lecturers: “New workspace” — enter title and topic, optionally choose a course and divide the enrolled students into groups (people per group), then choose a method and “Form groups and start”.
- 3Or in the course at the slide “Group work” → “Choose and prepare method” — the slide becomes the topic.
- 4On the workspace: double-click creates a note; plus text, shapes, arrows, pen and images. Everyone sees changes immediately.
- 5The group submits (“Submit as group result”, optionally with an accompanying text); the facilitator assesses with a percentage and feedback or returns it to the group (図 2).
図 2 The side bar “Submission” on the workspace: status, accompanying text and “Submit as group result”.
設定とスイッチ#
- テナントごとに切替可能既定:オンモジュール:Gruppenarbeit
The method library#
83 methods — for example brainstorming, 6-3-5, SWOT, retrospective, decision matrix, world café — in categories such as problem solving & analysis, strategy & business, agile & team, learning & studying, research & science. The search finds methods by name; at a slide “Recommended for this slide” are at the top.
Every card shows what the method needs: several groups, rounds, hidden collecting, voting. Methods with several groups can only be created with groups via “Start group work”.
The facilitator's tools#
- Timer with stop.
- “Bring everyone to my view” — everyone sees the same part of the workspace.
- Lock the workspace (only the facilitator writes), hide the others' notes (silent collecting), anonymous (no names on notes).
- Voting with a fixed number of points per person.
- Open group workspaces and add participants by email address.
- Jigsaw: “Form home groups” — one expert from each group. Stations: “Everyone one station further”, hosts stay at the table.
- “End sequence”.
The AI assistant on the workspace#
It reads the workspace, makes suggestions and stores the result as perfectly normal notes — anyone can move, change or delete them: first notes on the topic, fill the method's fields with prompts, sort notes by topic, summarise the result. The summary can be adopted into the accompanying text of the submission.
Processing in the EU; the notes are only transmitted for the respective request.
Taking the result with you#
Download the whole workspace as an image or as a PDF — without the others' mouse pointers.
ヒント#
- The method cards carry category colours and icons; the library is translated into fifteen languages.
- Group work also runs in a course's full screen.
- After submission the workspace is read-only for the group — that is why the platform asks beforehand.
自分で試す#
QR コードを読み取るか、ボタンを押してください
あなた専用のお試し学生が自動で作成されます — 登録不要。
自分で試すhttps://kurs.balzac-publishers.com/api/g-uds/rundgang?next=%2Fgruppenarbeit
関連する機能#
- Watching together (live co-learning)Watch a course with several people: one starts the room and controls the slides, others join via a link and respond in real time.
- Lecturer areaThe lecturers' home page: lead classes, maintain course texts in every language, set exams, assess papers, grade projects, maintain your profile.
- Classes (cohorts)A class bundles students on a course: invite by email, manage open invitations, see progress per person.
背景知識
- Presentations with live interaction: questions and pollsHow audiences join in during a presentation: live questions, polls, reactions, shared canvases and voting — in the room, online and hybrid.
- Digital classrooms: what they need to deliverWhat makes a digital classroom: material, assignments, feedback, collaboration — and what schools should watch for regarding data protection and everyday use.
