Create and Manage Groups

Use groups to create collaborative work areas for a smaller subset of students to organize their work on presentations and assignments or create special work areas for users with different learning needs.

  • Learners can belong to multiple categories and groups within the same course.
  • Each group can have its own assignment submission folder, discussion forum, and locker area to work in.
  • Items can be graded individually or as a team.

Definitions

  • Categories: The overall classification that a set of groups falls into. It can be used to restrict enrollments to a smaller subset of students in the course or allow enrollments for all learners in the Classlist.
  • Groups: A subset of categories that allows learners to see all content for a course, but be a part of a group for a specific project or activity.

How-To Guides

Create Groups
  1. To create a group, on your course homepage, click on ‘Groups’ under the Activities dropdown.
  1. On the groups page, click on ‘New Category.’
  1. Fill in group category details. A category is the higher-level information a subset of groups will fall into. Students can be added to multiple categories and groups within a course. Once category details are complete, click ‘Save.’ Required category fields include:
    • Category name
    • Number of groups
    • Enrollment restrictions.
Manage Groups
  1. Once the new category is created, navigate to the Manage Groups page by finding the group in the drop-down under View Categories.
  1. Once on the Manage Groups page for the desired category, click on the arrow next to the category name to quickly edit the category and group settings and email group members.
  1. Click ‘Edit Category’ to update any of the category settings. Note: the number of groups cannot be updated in this window. See steps below for details on adding/deleting groups within a category.
  1. Click ‘Add Group’ to create an additional group within the category. The Group Name and Group Code will auto-populate but can be edited. Click ‘Save’ when complete.
  1. Click ‘Enroll Users’ to search for new users, add, delete, or move members of each group. Click ‘Save’ when complete.
  1. Click ‘Delete’ then ‘Delete Category’ to permanently remove the category and all groups within it.
  1. Click ‘Email’ to write and send an email to all users within the category.