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==What is a grouping?==
A [[Groupings|grouping]] is a collection of groups. When you have made groups in a course you have the option of adding them to a grouping. A single grouping can house one group or several groups.

Note that since you can have a group of only one member, you can therefore have a grouping of only one member too, if you wish to restrict an activity to a single person in your course. 

Groupings were designed to allow selection of different sets of groups in each activity. If you assign an activity to a grouping then only the group/grouping that is selected will be able to see and do the activity. It will be invisible to other groups or groupings.

==What is the difference between a group and a grouping?==

A group is a set of users. A grouping is a set of groups.

==Why is the 'Available for group members' feature still experimental?==

There are known problems that will not be probably fixed.

==Why does a graded activity assigned to a particular grouping only appear in the gradebook for all users?==

This is the case for teachers viewing the gradebook in a course. The gradebook does not currently consider the experimental [[Available for group members only]] functionality. (See MDL-13868 for details.) It is recommended that separate courses are used instead. A possible workaround is:

# Put all graded activity is assigned to a particular grouping into one category
# Set the aggregation for the category to maximum grade
# Hide the individual activities

However, this is not the case for students viewing their grades. They should NOT see activities that were allocated to a different grouping from their own. (See MDL-31510 for details)

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=320 Groups forum]

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