Teacher Review for GroupMaker

A One Trick Pony, but an Awesome Pony That Does Its Trick Well

Charlie O.
Classroom teacher
Bullard High School
Fresno, United States
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My Grades 10
My Subjects Social Studies
My Rating
Learning Scores
My Students Liked It No
My Students Learned Yes
I Would Recommend It Yes
Setup Time 5-15 minutes
Great for Small group
Great with ELL
Low literacy
Special needs
How I Use It
Groupmaker is pretty straightforward about what it does--it makes groups. Therefore I've used this app to make groups. Not a lot of oohs and aahs here, but there are some things to recommend. In the general sense, you can create randomized groups for the entire class of whichever size you want. In the larger sense, you can get fancy with it by adding attribute options to each student with factors such as gender and ethnicity. If you're wanting to create diverse groups, this is your app. What's more, there's another option to create a "miscellaneous" attribute for each student; I used it to rate how off-task the students can get. Students ranked "one" were calm; "two" were borderline depending on the group, and "three" was a chronic off-tasker. Then when you create your groups, you can try to spread out your talkers--very nice.
My Take
It's free and it helps me make groups, so I dig this app quite a bit. It's not going to change your life but it's very good at what it does and that's nice.