A student grouping and communication system includes student devices coupled through a network to a teacher device and each including an indicator device that can provide a indication. The teacher device displays a graphical user interface that includes a student device indicator for each student device. The teacher device then receives a request to group the student devices and determines groups of student devices. Each of the groups of student device includes a subset of the student devices that are not included in the others of the groups of student devices. The teacher device then provides a group designation instruction to each of the student devices to cause each respective group of student devices to activate their indicator devices to provide a first group indicator that is different than other group indicators provided by the indicator devices on student devices in the others of the groups of student devices.