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# Group-Based Branching

## **Using groups for branching**

Using this branching type, you -**the teacher, get to map different students groups/teams into each branch.** 

When creating a branching that uses groups, then you can assign each group to a branch. 

### Creating teacher's choice branching

The way you create different learning pathways or branching, it is always the same. However, the decision on how students are allocated or routed to each branch is different. 

This short video shows how to create a set of branches and then choose the option for teacher's choice.

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/oD-zdVfUuzU>" %}
Creating a branching where teachers assign teams to different branches
{% endembed %}

During the lesson, you -as teacher, don't need to do anything as the teams have already being assigned to branches at authoring time.&#x20;


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