Manage Groups

1. Click Communication and then Groups from the course navigation bar.
   
   
2. If you have more than one set of groups, choose the Group Category you want to edit underneath the View Categories heading.
   
   
3. Click the arrow to the right of the Category to open its context menu and choose Enrol Users.
   
   
4. If you wish to search for a specific student, enter their name into the Search For field.
   
   
5. You will see a small icon next to the name of each user who is enrolled in at least one group. Select the check boxes beside each user's name to add them to groups. Uncheck the check boxes beside each user's name to remove them from the group. 
   
   
6. Click Save.

Tip: Select Show Search Options and then uncheck the Enrolled search option to filter the search by only students who are not enrolled in a group.

While you can move learners from one group into another, this will cause them to lose access to any material they submitted to a Discussion or Assignment Submission folder associated with their original group.

Assignments submitted with the old group remain with the old group. The user receives the grade achieved by the new group on any group Assignment Submission folders. You can manually change the user’s grade back to the original group’s mark in the Grades tool.

Discussion posts remain in the old group and will no longer be visible to the student. Any assessment you have already completed will be retained, but students will no longer be able to see the discussion they were graded on. 

For these reasons, If you need to reorganize your groups partway through a term, consider creating a new Group Category rather than altering the enrolment of your groups. This will allow all users to maintain access to their past work while allowing you to reorganize group members going forward.

1. Click Communication and then Groups from the course navigation bar.
   
   
2. Choose the Group Category you want to edit by clicking the input field underneath the View Categories heading. 
   
   
3. Click on the name of the Category you want to edit.
   
   
4. From this screen you can:
   
   
   • Add a Group.
     
     
   • Edit the Category Name or Description.
     
     
   • Change how new users are enrolled. 
     
     
   • Set up group Discussion Forums or Assignments Submission folders.
     
     
5. Once you have finished making your changes, click Save.

1. Click Communication and then Groups from the course navigation bar.
   
   
2. If you have more than one set of groups, choose the Group Category you want to edit from the drop-down menu underneath the View Categories heading. 
   
   
3. Click the arrow next to the blue name of the category in the table and choose Add Group from the drop-down menu.  
   
   
4. Give the group a name and add a description if you wish. 
   
   
5.  Click Save.

1. Click Communication and then Groups from the course navigation bar.
   
   
2. If you have more than one set of groups, choose the Group Category you want to delete from the drop-down menu underneath the View Categories heading.
   
   
3. Select the check box beside each group you want to delete from the Category, or select the check box beside the Category to delete the Category and all of it's Groups.
   
   
4. Click Delete.
   
   
5. Click the Delete Groups button. 
   
   

• If you've selected Auto-Enrol New Users, users are automatically distributed in the remaining groups.
  
  
• If groups are set up for manual enrollment, you must add users to the remaining groups using the Enrol Users page.
  
  
• Group Discussion Forums remain available for reference. You can delete them in Discussions.
  
  
• Group Assignment Submission folders and the files they contain are deleted.
  
  

• Users are no longer enrolled in groups because they do not exist.
  
  
• Group Discussion Forums remain available for reference. You can delete them in Discussions.
  
  
• Group Assignment Submission folders and the files they contain are deleted.