Group Formation

Build better groups that maximize collaboration and learning

Instantly form balanced, diverse, and high-performing student teams using smart, customizable criteria—so you can focus on teaching, not sorting.
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Manually forming student groups is time-consuming and ineffective.

Creating student groups is time-consuming and complicated—from balancing skills and personalities to ensuring diversity and fairness. Without a strategic approach, groups are often formed randomly or based on convenience, leading to imbalanced teams, poor collaboration, and ineffective learning experiences. Instructors are left to manually organize groups, wasting valuable time and risking conflict and dissatisfaction among students.

Group Formation eliminates these challenges by automating group creation based on customizable criteria, ensuring balanced teams and promoting effective collaboration. This saves instructor time while enhancing group dynamics and learning outcomes.
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Make group creation effortless and inclusive

Form groups instantly with custom criteria

Assign students to teams based on skill level, learning preferences, or other instructor-defined attributes—or let them choose their own.
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Ensure balanced and effective teams

Avoid lopsided group dynamics by automatically distributing skills, experience, and participation levels evenly, while also promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in groups.
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Publish groups directly to your LMS

Eliminate manual data entry by seamlessly syncing group assignments to your LMS, so students can start collaborating right away.

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With Group Formation you can

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Customize grouping criteria

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Balance group skills and diversity

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Publish groups directly to your LMS

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Adjust groups anytime with one click

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Facilitate self-reflection

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Check plagiarism with Turnitin

Customize grouping criteria

Automatically assign students based on predefined attributes, learning preferences, or student responses to custom questions. With question weighting, you can prioritize the most important factors for your learning goals.
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Balance group skills and diversity

Use advanced grouping logic to distribute skills, experience levels, and demographics evenly, ensuring diverse and inclusive collaboration. The tool’s algorithm avoids imbalanced teams by factoring in instructor-defined criteria.
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Publish groups directly to your LMS

Automatically sync finalized group assignments with your LMS, so students can immediately see their teams and start collaborating without additional instructor effort.
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Adjust groups anytime with one click

Easily modify group compositions when needed, with simple drag-and-drop adjustments in the instructor dashboard. This allows for flexibility without disrupting the learning process.
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Facilitate self-reflection

Encourage students to critically review, and reflect on their own contribution before assessing others’ work.
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Check plagiarism with Turnitin

If the institution has a license with Turnitin, instructors can enable plagiarism check setting for students to have their submissions reviewed for plagiarism by Turnitin before the automated feedback activity.
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Learn how top institutions are transforming feedback through Group Formation

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Using FeedbackFruits for the first time made the entire process significantly easier
John Lee
Department Chair of Engineering, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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With a lovely tool like FeedbackFruits, you can have things like feedback banks and audio feedback. We can really kind of scale up our approach.
Abby Osbourne
Assessment and Feedback Development Lead, University of Bath
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I think this works better than the Forum in Moodle. Students don’t engage like this is discussion content in Moodle, but they do in FeedbackFruits.
Jess Mitchell
Lecturer, Monash Business School
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It was the first time I encountered a tool (FeedbackFruits) that has this powerful foundational approach. And at this time, I knew that we could truly create something impactful with it.
Nadia Kelmouss
Learning Designer, ESSEC Business School
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FeedbackFruits is one vendor that has been consistent and patient with us and showing us constant support along the way
Wee May Lin
Senior Academic Mentor of Temasek Polytechnic.           
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Learning Activity Templates

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Beyond the first AI answer: compare, verify, and explain

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Team-based asynchronous critique of live presentations

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Enhancing AI Literacy: handling AI bias, hallucinations, and cognitive offloading

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Explain & Assess: peer review of mathematical reasoning videos

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Glow and grow: Feedback on oral presentations

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Group member evaluation of roles and contributions for capstone project

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Group member evaluation of teamwork and communication skills

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Low (<10 min)

Pre-project survey for group formation

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Interim evaluation of group contributions and collaboration

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer review of data visualisation report designs

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Final group member evaluation for group project

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer review of student designed learning games

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer and self-evaluation of group project contributions

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Discussion and peer feedback on project concepts

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer feedback and self reflection on collaboration skills

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer review of student-created AI assistants

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer review for robotics project development

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Group game demonstration and skill review

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High (>30 min)

Stepping into a manager’s shoes with interactive document

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer and self-Assessment of group contributions

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Enhancing AI literacy through interactive reading

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Mid-Project Team Performance Evaluation

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Exploring red flag legal issues through podcast and peer discussion

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Onboarding students to peer review

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

End of module group member evaluation

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Building comprehension of course materials for individual and team learning

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Interactive exploration of key course concepts

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Using team-based learning to inform project planning

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Enhancing leadership storytelling through peer review

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Examining challenging topics in education through podcast and discussion

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Mastering AI prompts: watch, practice, and reflect

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Practicing using AI to build strong essay arguments

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Exploring real-world teaching scenarios through social annotation

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Clarity through feedback: 
A physics peer review workshop

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Developing critical writing skills through peer review and reflection

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Building your own team structure with interactive document

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Collaborative audio task: the power of emphasis

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Group member evaluation and reflection

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Exploring active and technology enhanced learning through interactive document

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Real-time group member evaluation during group presentation

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Self-assessment of values, learning, and skills for future career decisions

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Low (<10 min)

Reading and annotating sample place narratives

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Analyzing leadership and emotional intelligence through social annotation

Knowledge uptake
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Case study analysis and peer feedback

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer review for policy analysis and evaluation

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Low (<10 min)

Reflection on learning objectives with the SOLO rubric

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Analyzing a topic through interactive video

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Low (<10 min)

Reflecting on intersectionality with interactive document

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Providing feedback on learning portfolio presentations

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Group peer feedback: Let’s keep it fair & fun!

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Gamified team based concept defence

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Gamified peer feedback: Leveling up through constructive critique

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CBE skill review with a Mastery Check rubric

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Low (<10 min)

Deepening critical understanding through discussion

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Gamified quiz for competition, debate, and learning

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Low (<10 min)

Cultural reflection discussion

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Social-emotional learning based Peer Review

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Strengthening research quality through structured peer feedback

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Low (<10 min)

Unpacking misconceptions through discussions

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Exploring intersectionality through interactive Video

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Self-reflection: Connecting learning to personal growth

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Co-designing the course: Interactive syllabus feedback

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Designing personalized learning through student choice

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Reflection on socratic discussions with guided rubric

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Reflection and peer exchange around an ethical dilemma

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Using critical discussion to build upon arguments

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Interactive case study discussion around an ethical dilemma

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Showcasing evolving perspectives through revision, peer critique, and reflection

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Transformative learning: Group discussion and self-reflection

Critical thinking
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Challenging cognitive biases through reflection and peer feedback

Critical thinking
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Exploring Hofstede's dimensions of culture through discussion

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Holistic team collaboration evaluation

Collaboration
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Low (<10 min)

Interactive course syllabus

Collaboration
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer workshop: Personal essay for creative writing

Collaboration
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Role play self-assessment using SPIN Selling methodology

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer Review: Role play self assessment

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Create final assessment instructions using GRASPS framework

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Real-world problem-solving lab

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Social annotation of diverse perspectives

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Peer-learning: Discuss your Frayer Frame

Collaboration
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Low (<10 min)

Critical analysis of GenAI content

Problem-solving
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Peer review of AI-generated content

Problem-solving
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CBE peer review: Skills in action (Video or podcast-based)

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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Share and discuss solutions for TBL (with AI reflection coach)

Problem-solving
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Application exercise for TBL (with AI Discussion Coach)

Problem-solving
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Team formation for TBL

Collaboration
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Strengthening soft skills through peer feedback

Problem-solving
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Perspective swap discussion

Collaboration
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Getting organized! Selecting the topic for the project

Collaboration
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Interdisciplinary project: Group member assessment & reflection

Collaboration
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Self Reflection of AI-generated Content

Critical thinking
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Introduction to course syllabus – Comprehension exercise

Critical thinking
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Low (<10 min)

Creating effective student groups

Critical thinking
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Low (<10 min)

Individual and group quiz in team-based learning

Collaboration
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Low (<10 min)

Creating effective student groups

Collaboration
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Prompt-based open discussion

Critical thinking
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Low (<10 min)

Low-stakes knowledge check

Problem-solving
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Instructor feedback on oral presentations

Collaboration
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Self-assessment on skills | Reflection moments

Critical thinking
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Intermediate (10-30 min)

Interactive lecture presentation

Problem-solving

Fully modular
learning design

The Learning Design System allows you to mix and match any of the FeedbackFruits learning activities into a learning design to support any pedagogy, modality, or discipline.
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Our team offers teachers and students 24/5 human support, help articles and workshops to familiarize instructors with FeedbackFruits.
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