Groups course settings

Enabling Groups will allow the teacher to create sets of students. By default, the groups settings are turned off in a course. Groups can be used in the [Context] of a course or in a specific course activity.

Most of this information is also repeated in the Course settings page under Groups and on the Groups page.

Group mode

Here you can define the Groups at the course level by a pull down menu. The selected setting will be the default group mode for all activities defined within that course. The group setting can affect what users see in the Participants list.

No groups

There are no sub groups, everyone is part of one big community.

Separate groups

Each group can only see their own group, others are invisible.

Visible groups

Each group works in their own group, but can also see other groups. (The other groups' work is read-only.)

TIP: You may leave it set to "No groups" and still have specific activities use groups. In this case the force setting below should be set to "no". For example, the teacher can use a group setting to completely separate cohorts of students such that each group is unaware of the other in the course.

Force

If the group mode is "forced" at a course-level, then this particular group mode will be applied to every activity in that course. This will override any activities that may have a special group setting.

TIP:The force setting is useful when the teacher wants to set up a course and not have to change each activities group settings.

Default grouping

Allows the teacher to set a default group.

TIP: To see other groups in this list, you will have to go to the Course administration>Groups tab and use the Auto-create groups button. One you set the auto create fields, then a group will appear under this heading in addition to "Default".

Tips and Tricks

Groups icon not showing? - remember to select something other than "none" in the Group mode.

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