Research Guides: Faculty &amp; Staff Support: Group Projects

Credit: The Extraordinary Teaching Project: Group Work Strategies from a Group Processes Expert by University of Iowa on YouTube.

Designing Group Projects

What are best practices for designing group projects?
Carnegie Mellon University
Getting Started with Designing Group Work Assignments
Cornell University
Designing Effective Group Work
Brown University

Credit: How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team by Amy C. Edmondson for TED on YouTube.

Selected Planning Tools

Choose a tool or software in which to share information. There are a variety of options for collaborating. Find one that works best for you. These are a few examples:

Diigo
A social bookmarking tool for saving links.
Doodle
A tool to help you determine a meeting time for multiple people.
Dropbox
Share and access documents and photos from anywhere.
Google Docs
Share documents and collaborate.
OneNote
Share notes, documents, images, and more with your group. Free for Coastal Georgia students, faculty, and staff through Microsoft Office.
Padlet
A collaborative online notice board
pbworks
A platform for team-based projects.
PowerNotes
A place to gather and organize research. Free through GALILEO.
Trello
An organizing tool for sharing project documents.
Wikis
Swap ideas and information.
Wikispaces
Another platform for creating Wikis.
Zoho Projects
Plan, track and collaborate.

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