📖 M2 Group Types and Participant Access Types

Available for M2 users

⚠️ Important for K–12 Educators:
Please make sure your students create their accounts only by joining through the Reflection link you share.
If students create an account on their own, they will automatically register as adult users, which may result in limitations and prevent them from completing reflections properly.

Users with a Free or M2 plan can create groups and invite participants to complete assignments in groups.

Group Types

When creating a group, Group Owners can select a Type. The group type helps M2 understand the context of the activity so the feedback, takeaways, and engagement insights better match how the group is being used.

Example: Group Owners can select a Type when creating a new group.

Classroom

Purpose: Support everyday teaching and provide ongoing, growth-focused feedback.

Example rubrics: Student engagement, questioning strategies, checks for understanding, classroom management, differentiation, or instructional practices.

Training

Purpose: Provide feedback on professional learning sessions and trainer facilitation.

Example rubrics: Trainer clarity, participant engagement, pacing, modeling, relevance of content, or opportunities for practice and reflection.

Staff Meeting

Purpose: Support effective staff and administrative meetings through reflection and feedback.

Example rubrics: Meeting facilitation, agenda alignment, participation, clarity of communication, decision-making, or use of time.

PLC

Purpose: Help teams reflect on the effectiveness and health of their professional learning community or planning process.

Example rubrics: Collaboration, focus on student learning, use of data, shared responsibility, action planning, or staying aligned to the agenda.

1-on-1

Purpose: Provide feedback during individual coaching, support, or teacher development conversations.

Example rubrics: Active listening, questioning, feedback, goal setting, teacher reflection, or coaching moves.

Evaluation

Purpose: Support situations where feedback needs to be aligned to an evaluative rubric or specific performance expectations.

Example rubrics: Instructional standards, observation criteria, teaching competencies, or skills teachers are monitoring as they prepare for an evaluation.

Note: Group Type and Participant Access Type are separate settings. Group Type controls the context and language of M2 feedback. Participant Access Type controls how participants join the group and what they can access.

Login Full Dashboard Group

Login groups require participants to register for a MirrorTalk account using an email in order to join the group and complete a reflection. Participants can visit the Dashboard and view all insights and scores for each of their reflections. All insights and scores are also visible to the Group Owner.

Session Group

Session groups require participants to be added to the group by name, with no email signup required.

• Participants in Session groups receive immediate feedback after reflecting but do not have access to the Dashboard.
• Participants can be added to a Session group in two ways: Group Owners can add participants by name via the "Manage Participants" button on the Dashboard, or participants can add themselves to a group by name when they navigate to an assignment link shared by the Group Owner.
• Group Owners of Session groups can view reflection cards for each user, as well as longitudinal data about participants in Session groups.

See also: M2 Rubric Builder and Teams within Teams / Sites.

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