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Students participate in the Bourstad Challenge and private simulations within groups within their school. Institutional heads can create additional groups and manage existing groups. Group supervisors can manage the group or groups they are responsible for.
Manage Groups table
The Manage Groups table gives the list of groups for the Bourstad Challenge or for a private simulation and allows for each group to perform 5 separate actions.
Manage groups table, Request codes action

Groups
Students participate in the Bourstad Challenge and private simulations within groups within their school. Institutional heads can create additional groups and manage existing groups. Group supervisors can manage the group or groups they are responsible for.
- Create a group in a private simulation or in the Bourstad Challenge
  Schools that join the Bourstad Program may create one or more groups in the Bourstad Challenge and in the private simulations they have created. This section presents the steps to follow.
- Manage Groups table
  The Manage Groups table gives the list of groups for the Bourstad Challenge or for a private simulation and allows for each group to perform 5 separate actions.
  - Manage groups table, Request codes action
  - Manage Groups table, Manage Codes action
  - Manage Groups table, Edit action
  - Manage groups table, Manage Participants action
  - Manage Groups table , Portfolio Management Ranking action
  - Manage Groups table, rankings for the entire simulation
    The Manage Groups table allows you to view rankings for all groups in a simulation.
- Manage activation codes table
  The Manage Activation Codes table provides the list of activation codes for a Bourstad Challenge or a private simulation group and allows to execute an action for each code.
- Managing Members of a Group table
  The Managing Members of a Group table displays the list of members of the group who activated a code for an account in the simulation, either the Bourstad Challenge or a private simulation.

Manage groups table, Request codes action

When this action in the Manage Groups table is selected, it displays the activation codes order form.

Figure 1. Activation Codes Order Form

If the simulation concerned is the Bourstad Challenge, the form also includes a section entitled "Type of participation" to choose between individual accounts and tandem accounts.

There are two choices as to how the codes are to be transmitted.

IImmediate transmission of activation codes by email to the students
This choice allows up to 60 activation codes to be sent to recipients.
Clicking this option will display instructions on how to enter email addresses in an input box.
Figure 2. Ordering codes for immediate email transmission to students

By clicking on the Order button, an email communication will be sent to each recipient with the activation code and instructions to proceed. This communication is identical to the one you can send with the Send by Email action in the Manage Activation Codes table.
Ordering activaton codes for later transmission to students
Choosing this option will display an input box to indicate the number of activation codes to be ordered.
Figure 3. Order code for later transmission

All codes ordered are added to the Manage Activation Codes table.
When an order for further transmission is placed, the ordered codes are displayed in a pdf file.
Note: for a pdf document to appear on the screen, it is necessary to use a browser that is correctly set to display popup windows.
Figure 4. Display of the ordered codes in a pdf file within a popup window