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Team Shake is a paid app you install on a phone. Groupings is a free group maker that runs on your whiteboard, with fair, balanced groups, keep-apart rules and no repeats.
| Team Shake | Sage Teachers' Groupings | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Paid app, about £1 one-off | Free |
| Where it runs | An app on a phone or tablet | In the browser, on the whiteboard |
| Balancing | By skill or gender | Random, mixed ability, or similar ability |
| Rules | Random teams | Keep-apart and keep-together rules, avoid repeats |
| Your class | Import from a file | Paste names or load your saved class, mark absent |
| Beyond groups | A single group maker | 90+ apps: timers, quizzes, seating plans, printables |
Team Shake is a well-loved little app. For about a pound, you shake your phone and get colour-coded teams, it balances by skill or gender, imports names from a file, and shares the results. If you want a dedicated app on your own device, it does the job nicely.
Groupings is free, and there is nothing to install, it runs in the browser straight on your whiteboard. It is built for the day-to-day of a real class: balance groups by mixed or similar ability, add keep-apart and keep-together rules for the pairings you know need managing, and switch on Avoid repeats so pupils get fresh groups each time rather than the same faces. Paste your names once or load your saved class, tap anyone who is absent today, drag pupils between groups to tweak, and print when you are happy.
Add your class, either sign in and load a saved class, or paste a list of names, one per line. Tap a name to mark them absent for today. Choose groups by size or by number of groups, pick how to balance them, random, mixed ability or similar ability, and add any keep-apart or keep-together rules. Tap Create Groups. Turn on Avoid repeats so the next set is fresh, drag names between groups to fine-tune, and print when it looks right.
Groupings is completely free, with no app to install. Saving your first class is free too, and that class is shared across every app. Sage Teachers Pro adds unlimited saved classes and timetables, but the group maker itself costs nothing.
Yes. Team Shake is a paid app you install. Groupings is a free group maker that runs in the browser on your whiteboard, nothing to install.
Yes. Build groups randomly, by mixed ability or similar ability, add keep-apart and keep-together rules, and turn on Avoid repeats for fresh groups each time.
No. Paste them once, or sign in and load your saved class. Tap anyone absent today before you make the groups.
Yes. It runs in any browser, the groups are big and clear, and you can drag pupils between groups and print.
Open it, paste a few names or load your class, and make your first groups. No download, no cost.