All the tools to form groups in class

How to form groups in class easily? If you need to set up random groups in your courses, to set up working groups for example, there are many online tools that can help you and save you time.

Here are nine online tools for building classroom groups They have the advantage of being simple to use and completely free of charge. If you know of other tools for creating small groups than those described below, please let me know in the comments.

Keamk

Keamk is one of the most comprehensive tools on this list. It allows you to create teams and groups at random. It makes it possible to use different criteria such as the gender (boys/girls) of the participants or even more interesting their level. You can save your lists for later reuse. You can also export them in spreadsheet format. Keamk is optimised to fit smartphones and tablets.

 

Team Maker

Team Maker is very simple to use to create groups from a list of pupils or students. However, you must manually enter all the names in a column to the left of the screen and then set up the draw according to your needs. You can of course choose the number of groups and give them a name. The tool offers lists of names by default, but they are in English. In one click, you get a list of students divided into teams. The tool also offers an app for mobile.

Group Creator

Group Creator is another option available to allow you to form groups easily. It is particularly fast. The longest is to enter the list of names that you want to divide into teams. For each of them, please indicate the gender with a small button boy/girl – boy/girl. Group Creator offers the possibility to create groups respecting parity. Lists can be retrieved in .txt format. Practical.

Livecloud Group Maker

Group Maker made in simplicity. It is even difficult to make it simpler to create one or more groups from a list of pupils. No need to register. Simply go to the GroupMaker website and enter the names followed by a comma on the left and click on “add”. Do not forget to indicate the number of groups you want.

My2lbox

My2lbox wishes to put an end to the puzzle of distributing participants into groups.  This small utility entirely in French allows you to randomly generate groups or make a weighted distribution according to the level of participants. Simple and effective. The developer also offers on its website other tools of the same kind, including one that allows a member of a list to be drawn by lot.

Random Group Generator

Random Goup Generator plays the colours and displays the composition of the groups in bulk on the screen. A tool that allows it to be used in front of the group in video projection, for example. Students will thus participate in a certain way in the formation of the groups and then see which group they belong to. Not many options here. We enter a list of names and indicate the number of groups to create.

Team Picker Wheel

Team Picker Wheel It is also made in the public composition of groups like Wheel of Fortune. First, a list of surnames or forenames must be provided. The gender, if you want to have a perfect mix, and the number of target groups are given. One click and a sort of contest wheel starts to turn to music. The result is displayed immediately. Small limit to classroom display, presence of advertisements on the results page.

 

Digital

In the many modules offered by the wonderful suite created by Emmanuel Zimmert, there is also a simple way to form groups in class. To do this, it is necessary to use Digiscreen, the interactive wallpaper, which is the first module proposed by La digitale. Digiscreen offers a group function. Simply enter the comma-separated surnames or forenames, then indicate the number of groups you want to get and the round is played.

 

Classroom Screen

Classroom Screen is a wallpaper with many utilities to display in class of which I have already spoken here some time ago. It does not, strictly speaking, make it possible to create several groups with one click. However, it offers a tool that draws lots of one of several names. One can thus constitute a given group by adding a name drawn by lot each time. Free and without advertising. No connection or registration is required to access it.