Groups optimized to achieve more — built from student preferences in seconds
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Why Clever Groups™?
The research says composition drives outcomes. The tool delivers the composition — across every preference and constraint simultaneously, for the whole cohort.
Put people together who want to work together. Keep those apart who need to be apart.
Set category rules — ability, gender, role, behavior — and Clever Groups distributes them evenly across every group.
Every generation comes with a satisfaction report showing exactly how many preferences were matched, for every student.
Some teachers tell us they spent an entire weekend sorting their class into groups — and it ended in tears. Clever Groups takes seconds, and you walk away with a report that’s considered every preference, category, and keep-apart pair — and tells you exactly how well each student’s preferences were honored.
How it Works
Step 1. Add your students and collect their preferences — students submit directly, or you enter them yourself.
Step 2. Set your group size, category constraints, and any keep-apart rules.
Step 3. Generate optimized groups in seconds — with a satisfaction report showing how well every preference was matched.
Three ways to generate groups
Choose the approach that fits your situation — each produces a different kind of outcome.
Preference Groups
Optimizes for the highest collective satisfaction across all groups simultaneously. Every preference is considered — the best overall arrangement for the cohort as a whole.
Demand Groups
Treats each person's preferences as individual demands — working to place everyone with at least one person they chose. Best for camps, accommodation, seating plans, and situations where every voice needs to be heard.
Random Groups
Creates genuinely random groups — useful when you want fresh, unpredictable arrangements. Satisfaction scores are still shown, so you can compare a random draw against preference-based results.
Whatever the situation — Clever Groups fits
Teachers come to Clever Groups with a specific problem. How do I create fair classroom groups without students seeing who chose whom? How do I put together camp cabin groups so that everyone knows at least one person in their cabin? How do I form project teams that balance ability while still respecting who students want to work with? How do I keep two students apart without drawing attention to it?
These are exactly the situations Clever Groups is built for. Try it free for your situation:
Trusted to group more than 500,000 students in 100+ countries
Use Cases
Education
From classroom project groups to school trips, lab pairs to reading groups — Clever Groups handles every grouping decision a teacher faces, with research-backed optimization behind every result.
- Classroom groups
- School trips
- Group projects
Business & Events
When team composition determines team output — Clever Groups gives event organizers the same preference-based optimization trusted by educators in 100+ countries.
- Hackathons
- Team-building events
- Workshops & conferences
Community & Sport
Every person in exactly the right group. Whatever brings your community together — a formation, a camp, an event — Clever Groups makes the placement count.
- Sports teams
- Camp groups
- Community events
Ready to make groups that work harder for every student?
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Team managers register free. A plan is only required to generate groups — see plans.