Group work

Group work needs no special playlist — one or more questions are enough, ideally a question block (symbol ⧉) with a shared scenario, so that all groups talk about the same starting point. Here the sample playlist “Presenting all question types” serves: the question block “B9 · Special exhibition …” bundles several subquestions on a museum scenario. The ▶ button on its row starts a session with this question block only.

11Question block with scenario22Session with this part only

1. Question block with scenario
2. Session with this part only

The start dialog lists the subquestions of the question block; All checks them. Under Participation you choose the join mode. Pseudonym or With names suit group work best, because the group board and the group banner then show names. Anonymous works too: every device then carries a fixed label such as “Participant 11”, and participants find their group by that number. This guide works anonymously. Start session opens the live cockpit.

11All22Participation33Start session

1. All
2. Participation
3. Start session

Once everyone has joined, open the Arrange menu in the right column under Participants. Create groups lets LehrPuls divide the participants; Groups by participants lets them find together themselves, each group under a letter. Participants & groups later shows who is in which group and lets you move individual people.

11Arrange22Create groups33Groups by participants

1. Arrange
2. Create groups
3. Groups by participants

After the start, the projector shows the group board: each group with its members, a person icon shows who is connected. The join QR code stays in the corner. Every smartphone shows its group, whom it works with, and that the group’s last submission counts; the group is also shown at the top next to the device’s own label. No question is open yet.

11Group and members22own group

1. Group and members
2. own group

The right column now holds the group phase card with the round. Names on projector switches the board between names (here the device labels) and plain group numbers. As soon as you open a question, the projector clears the board; Show groups on projector brings it back. With several planned rounds, Next round appears here.

11Group phase22Names on projector33Group board on/off

1. Group phase
2. Names on projector
3. Group board on/off

You open the question block as usual with the main button Show question block or the space bar. All groups get the same subquestions. If the working time should be visible, switch on the Timer below it first; even after the time runs out, the question block is only closed by you.

11Show question block (space bar)

1. Show question block (space bar)

On opening, the scenario appears first — large on the projector, as an overlay on the smartphones. Close takes the device to the subquestions; the Scenario button brings the starting point back at any time.

11Close

1. Close

Above the question are the group banner and the header of the question block: the numbered buttons lead to the subquestions, in any order; a check mark shows what has already been submitted. The group shares the work — every member may send any subquestion.

11Group22Subquestions33Scenario

1. Group
2. Subquestions
3. Scenario

Another member has sent the first subquestion. On all devices of the group it shows as sent right away, with the note Group answer · last sent by …. Every member can overwrite it with Change answer — the group’s last submission counts. Anyone who is typing at that moment keeps their input and only gets a notice.

11Group answer22Change answer

1. Group answer
2. Change answer

During the group phase the cockpit counts groups instead of devices: “2 / 3 submitted” means two of three groups. In the All view, the Submissions by participant panel shows one row per group and one column per subquestion; check marks show what has been submitted. The projector footer counts groups as well.

11Simple | All22Submissions per group33counted in groups

1. Simple | All
2. Submissions per group
3. counted in groups

Another press of the space bar closes the question block for all groups. Then you reveal the subquestions one by one: R or the space bar walk the debrief subquestion by subquestion. Every closed subquestion in the tree on the left carries the compare icon (split image).

11Debrief (space bar)22Compare groups

1. Debrief (space bar)
2. Compare groups

The reveal shows the distribution of the group answers — each group counts once, no matter how many members have sent. The smartphones show the same reveal.

The compare icon (split image) next to a subquestion puts the answers of all groups side by side on the wall, each with its group name — the moment for the discussion: where do the groups differ, and why? A second click on the same icon takes the comparison down again. Who presents for the group can be drawn with the Random wheel (see the guide Running a session).

You ask further questions in the same composition; questions without group reference may sit in between. At the end, End group phase dissolves the allocation: the devices lose their group label, answers count per person again. In the analytics the group answers stay marked with their group.

11Group phase22End group phase

1. Group phase
2. End group phase

Stations mode needs one question block with a scenario and subquestions per station, and the question blocks sit side by side in the same section. In the sample playlist “Presenting all question types” this is the section “Group work (2 stations)” with “Station 1 · Concept” and “Station 2 · Planning”. The planned duration of the subquestions later prefills the timer. Start the section that contains all stations: the ▶ button on its row, then All and Start session in the start dialog (see the variant “One shared question block for all groups”).

11Section with the stations22Station 133Station 244Start the section

1. Section with the stations
2. Station 1
3. Station 2
4. Start the section

The projector shows the station board: which group works at which station and how far along it is. On the smartphones each group sees only its own question block — with the scenario (it opens first), free choice of subquestions and the group’s shared submission state.

11own station22Subquestions

1. own station
2. Subquestions

In the cockpit every station has a card with its group and a check mark per submitted subquestion. Scenario & subquestions opens the view behind the station. The main button now reads Close stations — it ends the work phase for all groups together; the timer does not do that by itself either.

11Station with progress22Scenario & subquestions33Close stations

1. Station with progress
2. Scenario & subquestions
3. Close stations

After Close stations you could start the debrief right away. If every group is to do every station, do not reveal yet — otherwise the next group already knows the solution from the wall. Instead, click Open stations again in the group phase card. The groups stay together; their submissions belong to the station, and at the new one every group starts from zero.

11Open stations22Group phase

1. Open stations
2. Group phase

The assignment board is now prefilled swapped: each group moves on from its previous station to the next one (group 1 → station 2, group 2 → station 1; with three or more stations, one station further per run). Check, change if needed, Open stations. If the groups were planned with several rounds, switch to the new composition with Next round first — the prefill moves on in the same way.

11Group 1 → next station22Group 2 → next station33Open stations

1. Group 1 → next station
2. Group 2 → next station
3. Open stations

The smartphones now show the question block of the other station, again with the scenario first. Participants keep working in the same group.

11new station

1. new station

After the last Close stations, the selection jumps to the first subquestion of the first station. R or the space bar reveal subquestion by subquestion — at the end of a station it moves on to the next one by itself. The compare icon (split image) next to a subquestion in the tree puts the answers of both groups side by side on the wall.

11next subquestion (space bar)22Compare groups

1. next subquestion (space bar)
2. Compare groups

Every group has been at every station — the projector shows their answers to the same subquestion side by side, each with its group name. A second click on the icon takes the comparison down.

Once the debrief is done, End group phase dissolves the allocation; in the analytics the answers stay marked with their group. If you want to see the runs separately there, append the stations with Ask again as “… · run 2” before the second run and assign these new entries.

11Group phase22End group phase

1. Group phase
2. End group phase