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This guide provides suggestions about how to use the tools available on this site within the context of a group assignment. We focus specifically on supporting the team’s process – how they get their work done – as these tools can be used across different types of teams and tasks.

Why?

In modern organizations, teamwork is the norm, and in the post-pandemic hybrid workplace, virtual teamwork continues to be the new normal. However, as we faculty often notice, teaming effectively isn’t something that happens naturally, but requires structure and support.

We created this website to help:

  • both our faculty colleagues who choose a team-based learning strategy for their class, and
  • our students who are in both instructor-assigned and student-self-assigned teams.

What?

The site offers useful tools to help teams get started, templates to help student teams in getting organized, and best practices to build a path towards successful teaming and a productive, pleasant learning experience. The resources were selected and constructed based on disciplinary literature and academic research on teams and group decision making, diversity in teams, multicultural teams, virtual teams, online learning and instructional teams, and digital pedagogy.

How?

You can embed the use of this site in your course syllabus, and as part of the instructions when sharing team assignments. You might even integrate the team exercises as assignments for credit (or extra credit). For example, you can assign:

  • ask the students to individually complete the psychological safety quiz (opens in a new tab) and give them some class time to discuss the team-level aggregated results
  • ask the teams to write up an assessment of their performance after they conduct the after-action review (opens in a new tab)

How you wish to use this site or have your students benefit from it has no limits other than yours and the students’ imaginations. If this site has inspired you to design and develop a new team assignment, we encourage you to set up an appointment at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) for feedback and guidance.

If you find useful tools, literature, videos, …that could be added to the curated set of resources on the site, please contact us.