Creating Groups

Groups

The Groups feature in Moodle lets an instructor create student groups for online discussion forums. Students can be divided into class groups for online discussion forums that allow them to work more closely. In Moodle, using groups means that there needs to be only a single discussion forum that contains separate class groups.

Creating a Group

  1. Click on thegroups buttonicon in the Administration block.
  2. Click on the Create group button at the bottom of the left column. #1
  3. Enter a descriptive Group name. #2
  4. Click on Create group.

Note: The group name will now show up in the middle column with a zero next to it identifying there are no current members in the group. After creating the group, the next step is to add students to the group.

Adding Users to a Group

  1. Click on the Groups icon in the Administration block.
  2. In the left column, click on the name of the group. #1
  3. Click on the Add/remove users button at the bottom of the right column.
  4. On the Add/remove users page there will be two columns. In the left column are existing users in the group; in the right column are users in the course that can be added to the group. Select the names of the students you wish to add to the group from the right side; you can hold CTRL while clicking on students’ names to select multiple students at once.
  5. To add the selection to the desired group, click on the Add button. #2

Note: Students will now show up in the right-hand column and from there you can remove them at a later point in time.

Using Groups: Separate and Visible Groups

When activities are created, group options are present. This section will explain the standard set of options regarding groups at activity creation.

  1. The Group Mode drop-down menu has two options: #1
    • Separate groups - each group can only see their own group, others are invisible
    • Visible groups - each group works in their own group, but can also see other groups

 

 

 

 

Removing Users from a Group

  1. Click on the Groups icon in the Administration block.
  2. In the left column, click on the name of the group. #1
  3. Click on the Add/remove users button at the bottom of the right column.
  4. On the Add/remove users page there will be two columns. Select the names of the students you wish to remove from the group on the left side list; you can hold CTRL while clicking on students’ names to select multiple students at once.
  5. To remove the selection from the desired group, click on the Remove button. #2

Note: In order to move a student into another group, that particular student needs to be removed from their current group.

 

 

Removing a Group

You can quickly remove a group as follows:

  1. Click on the icon in the Administration block.
  2. In the left column select the group you wish to remove. #1
  3. Click on the button under it labeled Delete selected group. #2

Note: Removing a group does not delete the members in it. It just removes their membership.