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Groups

Summary

Creating a group (of students) within a Moodle course can be useful for team grading, team projects and team access to specific files/folders. 
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    Will Help You to:
    1. Creating Groups in Moodle
    2. Turn on Groups at Course Level
    3. Turn on Groups at Activity Level

    Steps for Creating Groups
    1. With editing on accessOn the "Administration"top blocknavigation bar on the rightcourse sidehomepage, ofclick Participants.
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    Under Enrolled Users on the pagedrop Clickdown onmenu, "Users"click and then "Groups"Groups.

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    On the "Groups"Groups page under Manage, click on "Create Group".
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    Give the group a name and then click "Save changes".

     

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    Back on the main "Groups" page. Click on the name of the group you created and assign students to the group using the "Add/remove users" button. When finished adding students to this group, click on Back to Groups to create more groups if necessary.

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    Options

    Continue creating groups and adding students or alternatively, use the Auto-create option to create any number of groups.groups Addfor the course.  You can then add student maually,manually orOR allow Moodle Groups to randomly choose students in each group.
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    Students

    can easily be moved from one group to another by using the Add/Remove buttons.

    View examples of Collaborative Learning or Group Activities for online or classroom

     

    Example of Restricting Access to Groups for Folders/Activities: Assignments, Folders, Files, etc.
    1. Go to the location of where the folder/fileassignment, folder, file, etc. is located. (MakeTurn sureEditing you are in "Editing" mode)on and click Settings on "Editthe settings"
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    2. Once you are on the folder/fileitem you wishwant to editrestrict access to,click on "Add restriction..." under the "Restrict Access" tab. Choose the option for "Group". Click the Group button and add the appropriate group.
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    3. AfterOnce that,restrictions have been added, only students in the specified group will see the contents of the folderassignment, orfolder, file.file, etc. 
    Video Tutorials: TBD
        Creating Groups in Moodle Turn on Groups at Course Level Turn on Groups at Activity Level

        See all about using Groups in Moodle Docs.

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