Group 4 project in the DP curriculum is an interdisciplinary learning engagement where students from the sciences subject group collaborate on a scientific or technological investigation for a given topic. Toddle has created a seamless experience for you as a student to work on and manage your group 4 project, in alignment with the IB guidelines.

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To begin, click on the ‘G4 Project’ card on your DP homepage.

On the landing page, you will see an overview of your Group 4 project under the ‘Project’ tab. This has details such as group name, research topic, project collaborators, assigned supervisors, overall status, and deadlines defined by the school administrator for the project.

The ‘Guidance’ tab at the top contains an introduction to the Group 4 project. You can refer to it anytime to understand the Group 4 project goals and objectives as envisaged by IB.

As you enter into the group 4 project from the ‘Project’ tab, you will see a detailed view as shown below. Use the left-hand panel to navigate between different sections, each representing a particular aspect of the project.

The ‘Planning’ tab is a shared space that is visible to all your group members. Here, you and members of your group can work collaboratively to create a proposal and an action plan for your project. You can specify the research topic, research questions/problem statement, and any other additional information that you wish to add as part of the proposal.

Furthermore, you can create a detailed project plan where you can create a list of all the project tasks to be done, establish deadlines, allocate owners for each task and track the task status. You can add as many tasks as you wish using the ‘Add row’ button or delete the existing ones using the bin icon.

💡This is a shared space for a particular group and any changes made here will reflect on all the collaborators within that group.

You can seek constant feedback from your supervisor and collaborate with your group members on each of these sections using the comment feature. For each new comment, you will be able to see a notification badge on the ‘Planning’ tab indicating the number of unread comments.

To add a comment click on the comment icon highlighted below.

This will open up a chat window where you can use ‘@’ to tag your group members or supervisor in the comment or type ‘@all’ to add everyone to the conversation. Besides that, you can use the three-dot menu to edit or delete any comment made by you.

Once you are satisfied with your project proposal and plan as a group, you can request your supervisor to review and approve it. Once your project proposal is approved, you will get a notification for the same under the bell icon on your home page.

Under the ‘Action’ tab, you and your group members can share the ongoing research and investigation being done on the project.

You can create posts and upload multiple attachments to them and also tag your fellow group members. To create a post, click on the ‘Create new post’ button.

On the landing page, type a description for the post and upload any combination of attachments using a device/Google Drive/OneDrive or upload a link. If you wish to remove any of the added media files, hover your cursor on the media card and click on the red cross icon as shown below.

Next, you will be able to tag your fellow group members with the help of the plus button as highlighted below. Finally, click on ‘Save’ to create the post.

Once the post is published, it will start appearing along with other posts under the ‘Action’ tab. You can edit or delete it anytime using the dot menu.

Additionally, you can see the comments added by the collaborators or supervisor to the post or add your comments using the comment icon.

💡All students collaborating in a group project can view each other’s posts but can only make changes to the posts created by them.

You can use the filter option as highlighted below to look for posts created by specific group members or the ones they are tagged to.

Next, the evaluation/presentation section is where you and other group members can individually or collectively upload the final submissions for the group 4 project. To add a submission, click on the ‘Add’ button and use any suitable option to upload the work.

All group members, supervisor, and school administrator can view the submitted work once they have been uploaded.

💡If the supervisor or school administrator locks this section, no new submissions will be accepted. You can only upload your final presentations as long as it is unlocked.

Using the three-dot menu, all group members will be able to download and/or delete their submission(s). However, the ‘Delete’ option would be disabled if the work is uploaded by some other member of the group.

Once you are done with the final submissions, you can move on to add your final reflections.

In the ‘Reflection’ section, you can include a reflective statement of about 50 words summarising your participation in the group 4 project. Everyone in the group is required to write and submit an individual reflection statement.

Add your reflection in the text box and click the ‘Submit reflection’ button as highlighted below.

You can edit or delete your reflection statement using the ‘pencil’ and ‘bin’ icons before it is locked by the supervisor or admin.

💡Supervisors and administrators will be able to lock or unlock reflections at any point. You will not be able to add or edit the reflections once it is locked.

Once your supervisor is satisfied with the submission of your group 4 project, they will mark it as ‘Complete’ and no further edits can be made post that. Consequently, the project status will be updated on your dashboard.

You will receive a notification for the completion of your project under the bell icon on your homepage.

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