Moodle Groups are a pool of participants created by the Site Administrator or Teacher available within a single course. For the creation of groups, a teacher must create these manually for each course from the enrolled student body.

There are three group types for activities on Moodle.

  1. No groups: This is a community activity. Any course participants who have not been restricted will be able to participate in this activity.
  2. Separate groups: participants of preset groups will be able to access this activity based on restriction, and will only be able to see their own group features.
  3. Visible groups: Visible groups can only participate in their own group but have read-only access to other Visible groups.

To create groups:


  • On your course page under the banner image, click on the Participants tab.
Particpants tab highlighted


  • Choose the Groups option from the dropdown.
Dropdown indicating the groups option

                                                 


  • In the Group Setup page select Create group.
Group settings page indicating Create group.


  • In the Create group editing page, set the group name and other vital information before saving this. Be sure to have an informative and specific group name to distinguish it from other groups in your course. Save your changes.

Group creation page.


  • Once you have saved your changes you will be brought back to the Group enrolment page where you will select the group you would like to add members to on the left, and select one user at a time and Add/remove users on the right. As users are added they will be filtered into the left column.

Group settings page which displays groups, and users trays and has the add/remove users button highlighted




You can find more information on how to use groups in Moodle on the MoodleDoc's website.