Groupings FAQ: Difference between revisions

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What is a grouping?

A grouping is a collection of groups. If you wish to use groups for two distinct purposes within a course (e.g. one set of groups for splitting a forum discussion by topic, and another set of groups for tutors who will mark Assignment submissions) then you need to put the related groups in a grouping. Otherwise Moodle won't know that the "Bob" and "Sue" groups are different from the "Physics" and "Chemistry" groups and will try to use all of them at the same time. See Groupings for an example scenario.

Once you have added groups to a grouping, you can choose a grouping for each group-based activity in its settings and only the groups within that grouping will be used rather than all groups in the course.

Previously, it was only possible to hide an activity from an individual or a group, by using Groupings. Since 2.7 this can be achieved much more easily (and with more flexibility) by using the Conditional Activities settings.

What is the difference between a group and a grouping?

A group is a set of users. A grouping is a set of groups. See the above answer to What is a Grouping? for more info.

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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.
+A [[Groupings|grouping]] is a collection of groups. If you wish to use groups for two distinct purposes within a course (e.g. one set of groups for splitting a forum discussion by topic, and another set of groups for tutors who will mark Assignment submissions) then you need to put the related groups in a grouping. Otherwise Moodle won't know that the "Bob" and "Sue" groups are different from the "Physics" and  "Chemistry" groups and will try to use all of them at the same time. See [[Groupings]] for an example scenario.
-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.
+Once you have added groups to a grouping, you can choose a grouping for each group-based activity in its settings and only the groups within that grouping will be used rather than all groups in the course.
+Previously, it was only possible to hide an activity from an individual or a group, by using Groupings. Since 2.7 this can be achieved much more easily (and with more flexibility) by using the [[Conditional activities settings#Group_and_groupings|Conditional Activities settings]].
 ==What is the difference between a group and a grouping?==
-A group is a set of users. A grouping is a set of groups.
+A group is a set of users. A grouping is a set of groups. See the above answer to [[#What is a Grouping?|What is a Grouping?]] for more info.
-==Why is the 'Available for group members' feature still experimental?==
-There are known problems that will not be probably fixed. However, there is a tracker issue related to this: MDL-42979
-==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]
+* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=320 Groups forum] in Moodle in English
 [[Category:FAQ]]
 [[de:Gruppierungen FAQ]]
+[[es:Agrupamientos FAQ]]

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Groupings FAQ: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 07:55, 18 June 2015

What is a grouping?

What is the difference between a group and a grouping?

See also