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.
- No
groups: This
is a community activity. Any course
participants who have not been
restricted will be able to participate
in this activity.
- 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.
- 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.
- Choose the Groups option from the
dropdown.
- In the Group Setup page select 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.
- 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.
You can find
more information on how
to use groups in Moodle on
the MoodleDoc's
website.