[lostcolony]

...that doesn't sound helpful, to be honest. My experience with group projects wasn't that nobody knew how to coordinate, but that people didn't -want- to. The person who was content to take a C on the project would just not do anything they were responsible for. The person who wanted an A would end up doing it. The professors had no formal method for checking in with the team, nor any real teeth for those who dodged their responsibilities, so even if it was communicated and the slacker(s) took a grade hit, it wasn't much.

(For reference, I had that happen at least twice in school, where the group of us broke up the work and scheduled check-ins, and by the end of it only I had done my part...though being cynical, as the team missed check-ins with various excuses, I had also done everyone else's because I cared about my grade)

Unlike the real world, where if someone is allocated work, and doesn't do it, a manager deals with it. Professors are not interested in being managers.

That said, it DOES sound useful for the real world, where the incentives are better aligned.