How to Create Groups on the Moodle Platform?

Groups are a great convenience for teachers who teach multiple groups for a single subject. By creating a group and assigning participants to it, you can easily track the progress of your students for that subject.

How to Create a Group?

After logging into the platform and selecting the appropriate course, go to the Participants tab and select Groups from the drop-down menu.

On the new page, you will see two tables: Groups, which lists the created groups along with the number of participants in parentheses, and Members, which shows the list of members in the selected group and activates the Add/Remove users button.

To create a group, use the Create Group button.
After selecting this button, the following fields will appear:

• Group Name – This could be the name of group,
• Group Description – Specify for whom the group is intended, for example: *Group intended for first-year Computer Science students, semester 1, group 01.*
• Enrollment Key – By setting an access key and providing it to students, there is no need to give the main course access key. When a student enrolls in the course using the group key, they will automatically be enrolled in both the course and the group.

It is not recommended to create groups automatically to maintain full control over them.

How to Add Members to a Group?

You can set access keys for each group and send them to students so they can enroll themselves (in this case, the course access key is not needed).

Note: To allow students to enroll in the correct group, you must ENABLE the self-enrollment option and set Yes for the Use group enrollment keys option in the settings! Students can also be manually added by selecting the target group and then clicking the Add/Remove users button.

This requires the participants to already be enrolled in the course.

How to Create Resources for Selected Groups?

Each topic (as well as individual activities and resources) can be created for a specific group. Below is an example based on the Test (Quiz) activity.

In the selected topic, create a Test (Quiz) activity. When creating the test, expand the Restrict Access section.

After clicking Add Restriction…, several options will appear. Select Group.

From the drop-down list, choose the appropriate group and disable visibility by crossing out the visibility icon.
This means that the resource will not be visible to users outside the selected group.

In this way, within one course and one topic, the teacher can create as many tests as there are exercise groups. Students will only see the tests assigned to the group they belong to.

Every activity added has the Restrict Access option.

How to View Grades for a Specific Group?

First, adjust the group settings in Course Settings. Expand the Groups section and select the following options:

•    Group Mode: Separate groups,
•    Force group mode: Yes,
•    Default grouping: None.

• In the Grades tab, a table with the students’ test results will appear. After selecting the name of the test, a table with the results of the students from that group will be shown.
  
• On the course page, select the name of the test, then the Attempts button.
• On the course page, select the name of the test, then choose the Responses option from the drop-down list.
• A new field will appear with a drop-down list containing the names of the groups.