Hi all, How important do you think it is to do the creation of teams in class? I'm asking because I was planning to create teams in class by having students line up according to different characteristics and then counting off. However, I want to make sure that both 'good' and 'bad' students are distributed across teams and I'm not sure how to do that without identifying the less-good students (in my mind, I am defining 'good' and 'bad' students by how well they did in the lower-division prereq classes, which are important preparation for this particular course). On the first day, I am having them fill out a short survey that I will use to gauge how to create the teams and I *could* just create the teams myself and walk in the second day and tell the students which team they are on. Does anyone think this would be a terrible thing to do? thanks, Jennifer