Assign one group assignment to ALL groups (across ALL 'group categories'')

Remko.S.95
Remko.S.95 Posts: 7 🌱
edited January 18 in Higher Ed / Postsecondary

I'm encountering a nasty problem in my (currently running!) course: Assignments that were supposed to be 'group assignments', have become 'individual assignments' (somewhere in the process of copying last years course and configuring it for this year).

I CAN still edit the final assignments that have no submissions yet, BUT then I HAVE TO select a 'Group Category'. I want the assignment to be the same for ALL groups. It seems impossible to move all groups to 1 category (right?).

I've researched it a bit and I currently see different strategies

  1. Somehow creating a new category with a copy of each group. (only possible if I can do this automatically by CSV import/export again, because doing this manually for 250+ students / 46 teams is no option, of course ;)
  2. Copying each group assignment (and I have 4 for each group) 10 times (I know I can prevent this for students by setting a Release Condition for each copy, but this a lot of work AND it will still create a confusingly long list of 40 assignments for the teachers, and a horribly complex formula for the grading - I've done this last year and I thought that I found a solution, but…)
  3. OTHER ? Of course I'm overlooking something, and/or I need some internal admin to help, but 'd like to point them to the solution directly :)

I'm in doubt what's best, and maybe there's a better solution. Looking forward to your help! - I've also put out this question within our university, but I also want to ask here, maybe the solution is better or quicker :)

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