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About the Group Space

When you are a member of a group in your Canvas course, your group will have a separate space in the course to work. This is called your group space. Your group space is only accessible by your group members and your instructor.

Exploring Group Tools

In your group space, you will have access to a number of different tools—similar to those your instructor may use in your course.

screenshot of the process outlined below

Group Tools:

Home: The homepage displays a feed of recent activity in your group.
Announcements: Like course announcements, you have the ability to communicate with your group about important information like meeting times or upcoming assignments.
Pages: Pages can include text, video, and links to files and other course or group content.
People: See a list of your group members.
Discussions: Just like in your course, you can have discussions with your group members.
Files: A shared place to store and share files with your group.
Conferences: Allows you to set up video meetings with your group members.
Collaborations: Lets you create shared documents, slides, or spreadsheets in Google or Office 365 that all groups members can edit and update.

For more information on using these tools see the guides. Collaborations and Conferences will be covered in more detail in upcoming lessons.

Related Canvas Guides:

How do I upload a file to a group?
How do I create a discussion in a group?
How do I close a discussion for comments in a group?