Course Site - Groups

Why groups are useful

Groups are a great way to help instructors manage larger classes inside a single (Moodle) course site. Groups can especially be helpful in courses where multiple sections of students are linked together. Using groups allows teachers to filter activities and the gradebook one section (group) at a time; and/or restrict access based on group membership to a particular activity, resource, or topic section so that only the students with a given group membership can see it. Groups can be used at both the course level and activity level.

One important detail to remember is that using a Group Mode allows the exact same activity or resource to be presented to groups in a course for smaller working groups. For example, you can have different due dates for each group in the same assignment; or make the same quiz available at different times for each group. This helps keep your gradebook clean and organized and also avoids the need to duplicate large activities in a single course.

Please submit a ticket if you have a large combined course with sub-sections, an Instructional technologist can auto-create groups based on these sections.

Groups only work with native Course Site ("Moodle") assignments. You can't use the group functionality with integrations such as Turnitin or Google Assignments.

See additional resources for designing and working with Groups in your courses - Berkley's Group Work: Design Guidelines, Eberly Center's Group Work Suggestions, Peer Evaluation Tool, Teaming by Design

Additional information and documentation on Groups are available for Moodle (4.5) directly.

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