This page contains all instructions academics need to create groups manually, auto-create groups, import groups from spreadsheets, create groupings, release resources and activities to groupings, and to manage groups generally.
What are groups?
Moodle groups allow academics to group course participants together. Groupings is an additional feature which allows existing groups to also be grouped together.
What can groups do?
Once groups and groupings have been allocated. Academics can assign specific resources or activities to those groups.
Create a group
There a 3 methods to create groups, manually create each group, using Moodle's auto-create feature to automatically create filled or empty groups or import groups from a .CSV file.
Create groups manually
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Auto-create groups
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Import groups
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Create a grouping
A grouping is a set of groups. Groupings enable groups of students to be arranged into different sets of groups for each activity.
For example, instead of giving the whole class access to a discussion forum, you may want only some members to see it and participate, and you may want that subset of students to also conduct their discussion within separate or visible groups. To make the forum available to some groups but not others in the class, place the groups who need access to the forum in their own grouping.
A grouping can contain only one group, or several groups. If you assign a resource or activity to a grouping, only students who are members of groups within the nominated grouping will be able to view the resource or complete the activity. It will be invisible to other groups or groupings.
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Submit activities as a group
Teaching staff can set activity submissions to only be submitted by students on behalf of their entire group. This can be enabled in the "Group submission settings" in any Moodle activity.
Release a resource to a grouping
Resources ranging from assignments to a page can be released to groupings of students. This can be particularly useful to release a makeup exam to students due to special circumstances. Alternatively, it can be used to release different case studies for each grouping for a particular assessment.
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Assign an activity to a grouping
Similar to releasing an activity, teaching staff can make their classes undertake a small-group activity under the supervision of a single person (say, a project coach), you can create a single activity and use groups to keep each team's activity private. Specify an activity as a group activity in the Common module settings section of the activity's Add or Update page.
Separate groups and Visible groups
When you configure an activity as a Separate group activity, group members can only see their own group's work; they cannot see the work of other groups. So, for example, in a discussion forum, all students will click the same link to the single discussion activity, but when they enter the forum they will only see posts put up by members of their own group. Instructors can see all the groups' posts, but students can only see and participate in their own separate group activity.
The Visible groups option enables students to view other groups' work, but they can only contribute to their own group's activity. This is useful when you want students to be aware of how other groups are undertaking an activity
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View, export and annotate a class list
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