3 Instructor Environment - 3.3 Assigning Teams

3.3 Assigning Teams

Once participants have registered, they have the ability to place themselves on a company. If instructors wish companies to be self-forming, there is no need to administer company assignments.

The Industry Roster area allows instructors to move individuals from one company or industry to another (see 3.10 Industry Roster).

3.3.1 Team Assignment (Tournament Only)

Instructors can allow participants to form their own "partnerships" or instruct participants to join specific companies. To control company composition in Tournament industries, either tell participants which company to enter or use the optional Team Assignment area.

The Capstone and Foundation companies are called: Andrews, Baldwin, Chester, Digby, Erie and Ferris.

The Team Assignment area allows instructors to build teams. Simply click on a name, select a team and click Assign Participant. If instructors have more than one industry, they can assign participants to another industry at this time.

3.3.2 Footrace Team Assignment

Footrace does not have a Team Assignment feature. To create a Footrace company, a "Founding" participant logs into the website and creates a company with an individual name. This company is then assigned a sub-industry number with a unique suffix, for example _012. The remaining teammates will then have an opportunity to join this company by logging in and searching for either the name or suffix.

If instructors wish to assign companies, it might be helpful to also designate the "Founding" participant.

Participants are allowed to make up their own company name, which can lend a whimsical element to the simulation. Concurrently, instructors can assign specific names that will help sort and track companies, for example "1001," "1002," etc.

Once Footrace participants have formed or joined a company, instructors have the ability to un-assign them. They can then start over and either join another company or form one of their own. See 3.5.4 Company Assignments (Footrace Only).

As an optional scenario setup, instructors can mention that a holding company (the company the participants created) recently purchased a 51% stake in a subsidiary company, and the participants have been assigned to run the subsidiary. The subsidiary company is selected by the instructor, and will be either Andrews, Baldwin, Chester, Digby, Erie or Ferris.

In the printed reports, the company name will always be the subsidiary selected by the instructor (Andrews, Baldwin, etc.). In the instructor's website reports, the holding company's name will appear.

All companies within the same Footrace Industry will run the same subsidiary.