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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.

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Step 2: Group settings

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Tip: Click on the question mark icon (blue star) next to any setting to display extra help or click on Moodle Docs for this page link at the bottom of each page in Moodle for accessing context-specific documentation.

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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Tip: Click on the question mark icon (blue star) next to any setting to display extra help or click on Moodle Docs for this page link at the bottom of each page in Moodle for accessing context-specific documentation.

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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.

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