About Groups

The Manage Groups tool is used to create group work areas for users. Groups can be used to organize users’ work on projects or assignments, or to create special work areas for users with different learning needs.

Users can belong to any number of groups in the same course. For example, a user could belong to a group for each class project, a special interest discussion group, and a group for advanced users all at the same time. Each group can have its own discussion forums, dropbox folders, and locker area to work in. Members of groups can be graded as a team or individually.

Access the Groups tool

Do one of the following to access the Mange Groups tool:

• Click Groups on the navigation bar
• Click Edit Course on the navigation bar, and selecting Groups from the list of course admin tools
• Click Groups on 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