Small-group learning activities (SGLAs) offer varied active opportunities and student benefits, but higher education instructors do not universally adopt SGLAs, in part owing to management burdens. We designed deployed the SmartGroup system, a tool-based approach minimize instructor burdens while facilitating SGLAs associated benefits by managing peer group formation work assessment. was one co...

Increasing use of online conferencing systems, particularly over the past year, has highlighted problems in these especially their poor support for small group interactions within larger meetings. These include clumsy formation (e.g., issues around joining and leaving existing groups), difficulty getting correct level audio isolation between groups, provision shared editing documents, as well f...