Groups vs GroupKeeper

Effortlessly organize your students into effective teams with Groups, promoting meaningful collaboration and building teamwork skills in the classroom. ADVANCED TEAM BUILDING Have certain students who don’t work well together? Simply list these pairs in the app and Groups will handle the rest, with its advanced team-building algorithm. BALANCE GENDERS Ensure each group has an even distribution of genders with the ”Balance Genders” option, promoting diversity and encouraging collaboration. EDIT GROUPS Need to fine tune the generated groups? Easily rearrange the result to achieve a perfect team composition. RANDOM STUDENT PICKER Encourage equal participation in the classroom with Groups’ random student picker. This makes sure everyone gets a chance to provide input, ensuring all voices are heard. EXPORT AND PRINT Easily create printable handouts, posters, or a PDF to share using five beautiful themes. BULK IMPORT Add students from Microsoft Excel workbooks, CSV files, or plain text lists. UNLIMITED CLASSES Enter all your students once, and then create as many groups as you need. You can even add an icon and color to each class to easily tell them apart. CROSS DEVICE SYNC Add your classes once, and use them across all your Apple devices with iCloud sync. ——————————————— Groups has helped tens of thousands of teachers sort their students into groups, fostering more positive learning environments for students worldwide. Privacy Policy: https://wttech.com.au/docs/groups/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://wttech.com.au/docs/groups/eula

GroupKeeper is your all-in-one toolkit for creating balanced groups, running classroom activities, rotating jobs, tracking participation, and organizing tournaments. Whether you're a teacher, coach, team leader, or club organizer, GroupKeeper helps you spend less time managing assignments and more time engaging your group. Create a workspace for each class, team, club, or event. Add students or participants manually or import a roster from CSV. Then use a collection of flexible activities designed to work together. CREATE BALANCED GROUPS Build groups, partners, and teams in seconds while keeping control over how people are assigned. • Choose the number of groups or preferred group size • Balance or cluster custom properties and skill levels • Use Anchor Roles to distribute selected roles • Consider preferred and avoided pairings • Reduce repeated groups and recent pairings • Customize group names, pin placements, and adjust results • Save reusable grouping templates KEEP PARTICIPATION FAIR Make random calling easier and give everyone a chance to participate. • Select participants in randomized order without repeats • Skip, go back, or move to the next person • Track participation and attendance • Use an optional timer • Add notes and resume activities later ROTATE CLASSROOM JOBS Share responsibilities fairly with Rotating Jobs. • Create reusable jobs for each workspace • Rotate assignments while considering previous turns • Set Preferred and Avoid Jobs for individuals • Adjust assignments and track progress • Save history and start a fresh rotation when needed MOVE THROUGH LEARNING STATIONS Keep lessons organized with Station Rotation, an advanced GroupKeeper Pro activity. • Rotate individuals or groups through stations • Create reusable stations with descriptions and capacity limits • Choose how participants are distributed • Use optional timers and alerts • Adjust groups and placements as activities progress • Review assignments, notes, and rotation history RUN TOURNAMENT BRACKETS Turn friendly competition into an organized activity with Tournament Brackets, available with GroupKeeper Pro. • Create single-elimination tournaments for individuals or groups • Preview and shuffle brackets before starting • View interactive brackets with rounds, matchups, and byes • Select winners and advance through each round • Track the champion or end a tournament early • Use optional matchup timers • Add activity, matchup, and participant notes • Review tournament history and share results as text or PDF STAY ORGANIZED WITH TIMELINE Keep your activities together and return whenever you need them. • Search and filter saved activity history • Resume supported activities in progress • Start activities again using their saved settings • Review completed results, notes, and progress • Edit activity names and notes • Share activities as text or, with Pro, PDF and print MAKE GROUPKEEPER YOURS • Customize workspace names, colors, symbols, and terminology • Track student details, relationships, and grouping properties • View tournament championships won • Copy reusable properties, jobs, and stations between workspaces • Learn features with built-in Activity Guides • Sync across your Apple devices with iCloud • Enjoy an iPhone and iPad experience with VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Dark Mode, and Reduce Motion support GROUPKEEPER FREE Get started with one active workspace, the five newest Timeline activities per workspace, and text sharing. GROUPKEEPER PRO Unlock unlimited active workspaces, full Timeline history, PDF and print sharing, Station Rotation, and Tournament Brackets. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://groupkeeperapp.github.io/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://groupkeeperapp.github.io/privacy.html