Group Charter

Learn more about the Group Charter feature of Cadmus Group Assessments

A Group Charter is a collaboratively written document created by student teams at the start of their project or assignment. It is both a planning tool and a learning tool. It acts as an agreement between group members that defines how they will work together, their shared goals, and how they will handle responsibilities and challenges.

It helps student teams work more effectively together and provides structure, fairness, and accountability, making group assessment a more positive and authentic learning experience.

How to use the Group Charter feature?

After dividing the students into groups, if the group charter setting is enabled, you will need to set up the group charter. The Group Charter enables setting accurate team expectations, timelines, and milestones, as well as adding collaborative instructions for students working on the group assessment.

Group Charter can also be added by clicking on the Group Charter section under the Instructions tab when enabled.

In this article, we learn how to -

Setting up the charter overview
Adding timelines and milestones
Adding collaborative instructions

Setting up the charter overview

The charter overview is a space that can be used to explain the purpose of the charter, outline how students should collaborate, establish expectations, and detail key deliverables. If the charter Overview is enabled, a minimum of 20 characters must be added.

Adding timelines and milestones

To add Timeline and Milestones:

1. Start by adding a due date, a milestone title, and a short description for the milestone.
2. Add new milestones by clicking the Add Another Milestone button.
3. Delete any milestone by clicking the bin icon to the right.
   
   

Adding Collaborative Instructions

Collaborative instructions can be added by clicking on the Add Section button under the Timelines and Milestones section. Clicking on the pen icon will allow you to edit the name of the instruction section. Click on the tick icon to confirm the section name.

Two types of instruction boxes can be added: Read-only and Text input. By clicking on the dropdown, you can switch between the two. Click on the bin icon to delete a section.

Read-only

If this option is chosen, you can add instructions of a length more than 20 characters. Students can read but not respond to these instructions.

Text input

If this option is chosen, you can add instructions of a length of more than 20 characters. Students can respond in a rich text input field to any added instructions. You can enable the word limit by clicking on the toggle pill and specifying the number of words. Students will be sent a warning when they exceed the word limit.

Completing the Charter Setup

After filling out the charter review, timeline, milestones, and sections of instructions, click Next to proceed with the group assessment set-up.