Paste your class list and this tool randomly assigns students to groups — unbiased, instant, and different every time. No sorting by ability, no preferences, no teacher decisions about who goes where. Every student has an equal chance of being placed with anyone else.
Teachers use random groups to avoid social cliques forming, encourage students to work with new people, and remove any perception of bias in group selection. Random grouping is especially useful for low-stakes activities, warm-ups, quick pair work, or any task where the social mix matters more than skill matching.
How it works: enter up to 200 student names — one per line or comma-separated — choose your group size or number of groups, and hit Generate Random Groups. Every arrangement is genuinely unpredictable. Generate again for a completely fresh result.
Need groups based on student preferences, ability levels, or gender balance? Try the preference-based group maker or the fair classroom group maker.
Example: A PE teacher needs to split 12 students into random warm-up teams. No preferences, no ability matching — just a quick, fair shuffle every time.
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This generator is a simplified version of Clever Groups. Try the full functionality in Clever Groups.
Enter student names separated by a line break
Add group entries to specify groups of different sizes
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