About Groups

Create group work areas for users with the Manage Groups tool. You can use groups to organize users’ work on projects and assignments, or you can create special work areas for users with different learning needs.

Users can belong to multiple groups within the same course. For example, each user can simultaneously belong to a group for class projects, a group for special interest discussions, and a group for advanced users. Each group can have its own discussion forums, dropbox folders, and locker area to work in. You can grade members of groups individually or as a team.

Access the Groups tool

Do one of the following:

• Click Groups on the navbar.
• Click Edit Course on the navbar, then click Groups.
• Click Groups in the Course Administration widget.

Groups help topics

Teaching

• Understanding how groups are set up
• Creating a group category
• Creating a group
• Editing groups and categories
• Deleting groups and categories
• Enrolling users in groups
• Deleting a user from a group
• Setting up self-enrollment in groups
• What users see in the Groups tool
• About Sections