Bidding is a popular tool in EduSourced to collect student project preferences and build teams. It goes far beyond this though, and can include students’ selection of preferred teammates, biographical information and anything else you use to build optimal student teams. This update brings a much-requested feature to bidding: bidding management for full control and flexibility of bids after they have been opened. This new feature is available to Admin and Instructor+ users and provides management and editing capabilities to open bids. The most common use case is adding or removing students from an active bid!
Using Bid Management
If your workspace uses the bidding feature, there will be a Bids menu item in your top-level menu. Click Bids to see any recent bids and use the Manage bid button to open the management view.
Clicking Manage bid will open the bid menu where you can do the following:
- Close an open bid before its scheduled close time
- Re-open a closed bid
- Re-open bidding for a specific student (allowing them to enter the bid late or update their old bid entry)
- Update the bidding message
- Add additional students who were not originally included
- Remove students from the bid
Reopening bidding for a specific student who has requested to redo their bidding selection is a common request. With bidding management, this can now be done right inside EduSourced.
To interact with the bid results, click View results in TeamBuilder (where you can manually build teams or use Smart Match for auto team building based on your bid’s results).
