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Why use it?
Groups can be used to manage group activities or to restrict access to course sections, activities and resources to members of a group.
Groupings are collections of Groups within a course.
Step 1: Add Groups
Note: When a student chooses a seminar group or is assigned to one in LSE For You, the group will be created in Moodle and the student will be added to it automatically.
Go to the course page and from the Administration block on the left-hand side of the page, click Users > Groups. You will be redirected to the Groups page.PARTICIPANS in Quick Navigation Menu, dropdown and choose GROUPS.
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Click the Create group button (scroll down).
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Step 2: Group settings
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Enter a Group name. Optionally, enter a Description to remember what the group was created for.
Click Save changes.
Step 3: Add or remove users to/from a Group
Select the Group where to add or remove users from, and click the Add/remove users button.
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Step 4: Add Groupings
Go to the course page and from the Administration block on the left-hand side of the page, click Users > Groups.
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Step 5: Grouping settings
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Step 6: Add or remove Groups to/from a Grouping
Go to the course page and from the Administration block on the left-hand side of the page, click Users > Groups.
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How to use Groups and Groupings to manage group activities
Once you have created groups within your course, you can set up group activities.
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How to restrict access to course sections, activities and resources to a group
On the settings page of a course section, activity or resource, enable the Restrict access setting.
A group restriction can then be added as the criteria. (Group is only one of the ways to restrict access; see Restrict access for more details.)
IMPORTANT: Make sure you click on the eye-icon to hide the criteria, especially if you restrict access to students with Inclusion Plans (IPs) so that their identities are hidden (i.e. their names will not appear under the activity from Moodle’s homepage for everyone to see).
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