Moodle in English: Random allocation for separate groups

Workshop

Random allocation for separate groups

This discussion has been locked because a year has elapsed since the last post. Please start a new discussion topic.

Random allocation for separate groups

by RACHEL SAUVAGEOT - Friday, November 8, 2019, 2:58 AM

Is it possible to do random allocation but within separate groups?

We have a very large course that is broken into sections. I'd like our students to only assess submissions from other students in the same section (group). I set "separate groups" in the settings, and when I go to the random allocation page it says "separate groups" at the top of the page but when I do the random allocations then everyone is just assigned reviews randomly across the entire course.

It looks like I have more options in the manual allocation, but there's no way we can do manual allocations with 700 students.

Not sure if I'm just setting up the assignment options wrong and there might be a way to do this easily.

Re: Random allocation for separate groups

by David Mudrák - Friday, November 8, 2019, 7:43 PM

That's weird. In the separate groups mode, the random allocation does exactly what you describe. It should only assign reviewers from the same group as the the author is. Are you sure that you do not have users in multiple groups or so?

Average of ratings: -

Re: Random allocation for separate groups

by RACHEL SAUVAGEOT - Saturday, November 9, 2019, 3:29 AM

Hmmm ... we definitely don't have users in multiple groups. They can only enroll in one section of the course, and the separate groups seems to work for everything else. I can sort by separate groups when I'm looking at the Workshop assignment, but the allocations were random throughout the entire course.

Actually I'm double checking and the way it is set up is that all our students are members of our course, and then they are also each assigned to a section. So maybe this is the issue? But I don't think that is something I can change.
image of separate groups drop down

Average of ratings: -