RandomGroups

Background and rationale

For some teaching activities, it can be useful randomly allocate students (or other list items) to groups.

Description

The RandomGroups macro takes a list of items (e.g. student names) from an attached file (default class.text), and returns a table with the items allocated to groups of a specified size (between 2 and 6 per group).

If desired the headings for the table of groups and members can be set allowing the randomising and grouping of items for other purposes than class members.

Usage

<<RandomGroup([class=]"filename"[,[size=]size][,[sort=]sort][,[head1=]head1][,[head2=]head2])>>

class=filename: optional, default "class.txt"

size=size: optional, default 2, minimum 1 and maximum 99

sort=sort: optional, default False, can be set to True with 1, True, T, Yes, or Y (not case sensitive)

head1=head1: optional, default "Group"

head2=heat2: optional, default "Members"

Download & Release Notes

Download	Release Version	Moin Version	Release Notes
RandomGroups-1.0.py	1.0	1.9.8
RandomGroups-1.1.py	1.1	1.9.8	Forced coding input file
RandomGroups-1.2.py	1.2	1.9.8	Allows the table headings to be changed

Examples

<<RandomGroups(size=3, sort=T)>>

Group	Members
1	Eric, Jack, Zoe
2	Caroline, Gary, Hanley
3	Cloris, Elton, May
4	Kelvin, Kristyl, Lei
5	David, Lucy, Tiana

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See an example usage in StudentGroups.

By setting the headings to "Unit" and "Treatment" with a group size of one, this can be used to randomly allocate treatments to plots when designing a student experiment.

See an example usage in RandomTreatments.

Copyright

License

GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.

Known issues and limitations

None

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