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This tool allows course managers to compose sub groups of students from all of the students enrolled in the course.

Each group gets its own space and tools reserved for its subselection.

You can create several groups in your course and determine how many members it will include. Each student can be added to a group.

Table of contents

1 Administering the groups 1.1 Create new groups 1.2 Edit group properties 1.3 Edit a group of users

Administering the groups

As a course manager, you can create groups of students. A group is a collection of students under a label (groupe name) sharing the same tools :

• Forums
• Documents upload area
• Chat
• Wiki tool

You can fix some properties in your course to set how does group subscribing work :

• Is the student allowed to subscribe himself ?
• How many groups the student can choose ?
• Are the forums of the groups public ?

As a tutor, you can follow the work of the group, consult documents or take part to the forums, but you cannot modify anything else in other tools of the course.

Create new groups

To create groups:

• Select Create new group(s).
• Enter values (maximum is not necessary and can be empty, but then you will not be able to fill groups randomly as everybody will be registered in the first group whose size is unlimited).
• Click on Ok to validate.

If needed and if your users list is not empty, you can now fill the groups automatically by random or edit every group one by one to enter users one by one. This manual editing can also be done after automatic filling or self-registering to fine tune group composition, check who is where and so on, move one specific student, etc.

Edit group properties

Select Main Group Settings to determine :

• Whether students can self-register in groups or if you prefer manual or random filling.
• Whether students can be members of several groups or not.
• Whether groups receive a forum, a documents upload area and/or a chat.
• Whether forums are private (only for group members) or public (any other student can read and write).
• Validate.

Note :  the documents area is always public.

Edit a group of users

These options are only available for professors of the course :

• Click on the pencil ( ) icon beside the group name (groups must be created beforehand).
• Modify the Name.
• Attach a Tutor (tutors must be allowed tutor right first through users list).
• Write a Description (a task, a list of activities, a problem, anything...).
• Move students from right to left and/or left to right to modify the group composition.
• Modify Max. seats (existing members will not be removed if there is more than the new value you enter).
• Validate.

As a lecturer, you are allowed to enter every forum and group documents area. Tutors will enter any group too, but forums list will mention to them which group they supervise.