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Open the dock and tap Group Maker
Add your names once — they stay with the widget for next time.
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Group Maker
Random groups in seconds — pairs, trios, whole tables.
Paste your class list, pick how many groups, and it deals students out fairly. The bit that used to take five awkward minutes now takes one tap.
Also called: random group generator · team picker
- Free for teachers · no login required
How it works
Three steps, zero setup
No setup screen, no import wizard — Group Maker lives on the same board as everything else and it's running before the class has sat down.
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Choose how many groups
Two teams or eight tables — pick a number and shuffle. Keep-apart pairs quietly stop certain combos from happening.
Show the class
Groups appear in a clean table or as avatar cards, with group names and colours you can customise.
Classroom ideas
Try it tomorrow
Three ways teachers actually run group maker — steal one for tomorrow morning.
Turn-and-talk, actually random
Fresh pairs for every discussion, so 'talk to your partner' stops meaning 'talk to your best friend'.
Jigsaw expert groups
Deal the class into four topic groups to research, then reshuffle so every new group has one expert per topic. Two taps, no clipboard.
Table reset day
First Monday of the month: shuffle the seating groups and let the group names christen the tables. New month, new neighbours.
The wheel ended the 'you always pick the same people' complaints on day one. Remove-after-pick might be the fairest thing in my room.
Same dock, one tap away 
Pairs well with
Every tool lives on the same board — these turn group maker into a whole routine.
…and the rest of the dock is one tap away:
FAQ
Good to know
Can I stop two students being grouped together?
Yes. Keep-apart pairs are respected on every shuffle, and nobody in the room knows the rule exists.
Can I name the groups?
Yes — name them and colour them. 'Team Photosynthesis' beats 'Group 3' every time.
Does it do pairs?
Pick enough groups and you've got pairs. It divides whoever's on the list as evenly as the maths allows.
What if someone's absent?
Exclude them from today's shuffle without removing them from the list — they're back in the pool tomorrow.
Do I need an account to try it?
No — no login, no install. Your class list saves with the board on this device; an account only matters for other devices.
Put a group maker on your board
Open a board, tap the dock, and it's there. That's the whole setup.