Managing groups in courses

Create a group:

Navigate to the course that you want in Moodle:

Step 1 - Click the Participants page.

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Step 2 - In the Participants page, click  on the gear icon and select Groups.

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Step 3 - On the Groups page, click Create group. (Alternatively, you can click Auto-create groups and specify how you want all students in the class divided into groups.)

On the Create group page:

• Enter a Group name.

• Enter a Group description, if necessary.

If you wish, you can add an identifying picture for the group, which you can choose to Hide or display.

Step 4 - Click Save Changes.

You can also add or remove users; On the Groups page, click on the group you want to add or remove users from. Click Add/remove users.

Moodle implements a regular task to automatically suspend users from Moodle access because of overdue fees and withdraw from the module.

On the Add/remove users page:

• Select names from the Potential members list.

• Click Add to move them into the Group members list.

View and export a group list or communicate with a group

Step 1 - In the Navigation, for the relevant course click Participants. A list of all course participants displays.

Step 2 - From the filter drop-down list at the top of the page, select the group to display. A list of the group members displays.

Step 3 - Below the list, click Select all, and from the Choose drop-down list, select:

• Send a message to open a page where you can enter a message, remove group members from the recipients list, preview and (in the preview page) send the message.

Step 4 - Type out your message, and when ready, press send.

• Download as CSV to export the group list as a CSV file to your computer.

You can find the download list in your browser’s download list or your computer directory in Downloads (default), or anywhere you selected to save it.

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