To see how bidding looks to students, click here.
Bidding is a tool in EduSourced to share your project list to students and ask them to rank (or score) their project preferences and answer any additional questions you add to help with student matchmaking. Bidding is not required, and Admin and Instructor users can skip this step directly adding students to projects if needed. For instructions on how to add students manually, click here. To view how bid responses work from the student's perspective, click here. A related feature is Project Preview, allowing students to view dynamically your list of Accepted projects. This article details Project Preview.
You can access this feature from the Accepted and Active project lists or TeamBuilder.
Select which projects students will bid on
Click Open Bidding to get started. The first step is to select the projects you wish to share with your students for them to rank. You can select individual projects, filter by a given category or click Select All. You can build a list of projects from multiple stages (proposed, accepted or active) and you can mix and match from each stage.
Select which students to include
The next step is to pick which students to include in your bid. If student groups are enabled for your workspace, there will be a selector at the top (not pictured in the screenshot below). By default, all active students will be selected. You can deselect the All option or individual deselect the students you wish to exclude.
Configuring your bid and opening bidding
You can optionall name the bid (useful if you do multiple rounds of bidding) and can sent a close date after which students will be unable to respond. You may want to set this one or two days after students are told to turn in their preferences so that any last-minute bids can be collected.
Bids can be sent immediately, or you can set a scheduled date and time. Bids can be set to have students rank or score their project preferences. Ranking vs scoring is explained here. You can also add your own custom message for students to see.
Opening bidding send an email notification to all students included in your bid. That email has a link for the student to respond, no login required!