An Overview of Managing Groups

The groups feature allows you to assign students to one or more groups for the entire course or for individual activities. Because students can be in multiple groups at once, instructors can set up different group memberships for different activities (e.g., using larger groups for forum discussions, and smaller groups for peer review activities).  In addition, groups of students can each be assigned separate activities.

Some examples of ways to use groups:

• Set up groups of students and activities that are completely invisible to other groups.
• Allow groups to see, but not contribute to each other’s activities.
• Filter the gradebook, forums, or other activities, according to groups.
• Use one-person groups to set up a forum as a private journal exercise.