People and Groups

Your admin sets up classes and assigns you to them. From there, you create groups to organize your students for each session. This page explains how classes and groups work together. For how content is structured, see Content Structure.

Your Working View

As a professor, you work with students from your assigned classes and organize them into groups for your sessions.

Classes are assigned to you by your admin. You see the students in those classes.
Groups are yours to create and manage. You draw students from your classes into groups.
Sessions enroll groups — groups are the bridge between your students and your content.

Classes

A class is an institutional grouping managed by your admin — typically organized by year, program, or department. You cannot create or edit classes, but you can see all classes in your organization and work with the students in the classes you are assigned to.

What you see	Where
All classes in your organization	Visible across the platform
Students from your assigned classes	Available when creating groups

Need a class updated?

Only admins can create, edit, or delete classes and assign users. Contact your organization's admin if you need changes. See Creating and Managing Classes for how admins manage classes.

Groups

Groups are your primary tool for organizing students. You create them, name them, and populate them with students from your assigned classes.

Property	Description
Name	A label you choose (e.g., "Lab Section A", "Monday Group")
Owner	You — only you can see and manage your own groups
Students	Students you add from your assigned classes

You create and manage groups from the Roster > My Groups section in the Teacher's Desk. When adding students, you can select from any student in a class you are assigned to.

A student can belong to multiple groups at the same time. This lets you organize the same students in different ways for different sessions.

How Groups Connect to Sessions

When you create a session, you assign groups — not individual students or classes. This gives you fine-grained control over who accesses each session.

Draw students from one or more classes into groups.
Assign one or more groups to a session.
Students in those groups automatically gain access to the session.

See Creating and Managing Sessions for step-by-step instructions — group assignment happens at Step 4.

Typical Workflow

Your admin creates classes and assigns you and your students to them.
You create groups from the students in your assigned classes, organized however you prefer.
You create a session and assign your groups to it.
Students in those groups see the session on their dashboard and can begin working.

Next Steps

Creating and Managing Sessions -- deliver labs to your groups
Content Structure -- understand sessions, labs, pages, and activities
Creating and Managing Classes -- how admins set up classes