How to assign all students to a single group to use in SpeedGrader

SpeedGrader, accessed froM Assignments, requires "Select Group to Grade" be picked from a pull down menu. By default The menu is empty. One must assign students to Groups. I want to grade all students so I need to create a group that contains all students. I can do so under People, but then need to manually drag students ONE AT A TIME into the newly created group. This works fine with a few students, not so good for courses with hundreds of students. How do I (the instructor) add all students to a group so I can use SpeedGrader?

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stimme

@bgrinstein That behavior is caused by a checkbox in the course Settings > Details tab. If you are able to deactivate that setting, you can save the time of making a group for all students.

How do I enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group?

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mzimmerman

Hi @bgrinstein

Is the assignment that you're trying to grade set as a Group assignment in the assignment settings?

The only reason you should be asked for a group to grade in Speedgrader is if what you are grading is a group assignment. And if it's a group assignment, students should have been assigned to the groups before the students submitted the assignment.

mzimmerman

Where in Speedgrader are you seeing "Select Group to grade"?

stimme

@bgrinstein That behavior is caused by a checkbox in the course Settings > Details tab. If you are able to deactivate that setting, you can save the time of making a group for all students.

How do I enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group?

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