Activity examples / Team generation
Random teams for a workshop
A workshop often needs a quick, transparent way to form discussion tables. Prepare a simple applied list, preview the headcounts and show a readable result. This example deliberately separates random membership from any claim of balanced professional experience.
Try a clearly fictional list
Fictional workshop participants · 14 entries · 4 teams
- Avery
- Blake
- Casey
- Drew
- Emery
- Finley
- Gray
- Harper
- Indigo
- Jules
- Kai
- Lane
- Morgan
- Noel
1. Prepare the participant list
Paste one column of participants or import a supported single-column TXT file. Check the entry count and repeated labels before applying. The example contains fourteen fictional names; it is not a public participant directory.
2. Choose the number of tables
Set Number of teams to 4 and inspect sizes 4, 4, 3 and 3. This setting specifies four teams; it is not a setting for exactly four people at each table. Generate once after confirming that the sizes work for the room.
3. Name tables and distribute the output
Rename the groups to table or station names. Copy all teams, download a result file or open the print preview. Presentation mode shows the assignment without the editing panel. A reshuffle keeps group names when the team count is unchanged, but makes a new membership decision.
What to expect
Fourteen participants form two teams of four and two teams of three. Team sizes differ by no more than one. Renaming a group changes its label, not its membership or the random selection rule.
What the tool does not decide
Skills, roles and previous team pairings are not inputs to this generator. It cannot ensure that experienced participants are distributed evenly, or that people meet different partners each time. Repeatedly reshuffling until an organizer likes the output should not be presented as a single independently supervised draw.
Next time you run this activity
Save a reusable list for the next workshop, or export the current activity when you need the same group names and assignments later. The file preview tells you whether you are loading a fresh list or restoring a whole activity. Keep participant files out of public repositories and shared links.