# TeamAnneal Stage Two: A Web Service for Purposeful Student Team Creation (2017-2018)

**Source**: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/project/44479
**Parent**: https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/579

## Abstract

Purposeful creation of student teams ensures groups have the desired characteristics for particular learning activities ¿ be they semester-long projects or active-learning classes in collaborative spaces.
TeamAnneal is a team formation software tool, developed within the EAIT Faculty, to create student groups based on demographic information, academic performance, class sign-on information, etc. The tool is currently limited to expert users as it runs on the command-line and the required student data must be obtained and collated manually, e.g. from Business Objects queries, Blackboard Grade Centre
downloads, SI-net class lists, etc.
This project will complete the next phase of development of TeamAnneal, including:
¿ building a web-based interface to make the tool available to any academic who wants to set up teams;
¿ developing an interface to other UQ systems to automatically obtain student data and export group information; and
¿ building a library of team formation constraints that can be shared between users.

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## Experts

### Associate Professor Peter Sutton

Associate Professor
:   School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
:   Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

[Peter Sutton](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/70)

### Professor Lydia Kavanagh

President of the Academic Board
:   Office of the Vice-Chancellor

[Lydia Kavanagh](https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/579)

Grant type
:   UQ Teaching Innovation Grants

Funded by
:   The University of Queensland