Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Downlink control information (DCI) may be used for multiple purposes such as scheduling uplink data, scheduling downlink data, or adjusting transmission power. DCI may be delivered via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). Some of the control information conveyed by DCI may be offloaded to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). In a broadcast or multicast PDSCH conveying multiple DCI components for multiple user equipments (UEs), the network may group DCI components for UEs having a same target code rate into groups (e.g., transport blocks), and may encode those groups of DCI using modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) to achieve the target code rates. The DCI conveyed on a PDCCH may schedule the broadcast or multicast PDSCH conveying the multiple DCI components for the multiple UEs.