Collaborating with Colleagues in Groups
Good teaching has always been a team effort. Groups bring that into ATLAS: a place for a department, a grade team, a PLC, or a coach and the teachers they support to share tasks and talk through what worked. New team members can scroll back through what the group has already found, and a coach can point a whole team to the same task in one place. This is one of two ways to collaborate in ATLAS, alongside contributing reviews and shared documents back to the wider community.
Creating a group
Click your name in the top-right corner and choose Profile & My Collections. Scroll to My Groups and click Create a Group.
Give the group a Name and an optional Description, add colleagues by email under Add Member, and click Create Group. The people you add receive an email invitation to join. Because you created the group, you are its admin (more on that below).
Sharing and discussing tasks
A group is built around its discussion. To share a task or a collection, open it, copy the link from your browser, and paste it into the Join the discussion... box. Everyone in the group can click the link to open it.
Members and roles
On the group page, click View Group Details to see who is in the group and to invite more people.
- Anyone in the group can invite a new member. Enter their email under Add Members and click Send Invite. Pending invitations show under Invite Sent until they are accepted.
- Members lists everyone in the group. You can leave a group at any time with Leave Group.
- The teacher who created the group is its admin. The admin can delete posts and remove members to keep the discussion useful, hand the role to someone else with New Admin, or Archive Group to retire it.
