Create groups and grouping

An example of Grouping

Overview:

This guide will show you how to create groups and grouping in your module.

What to know:

In group projects, it is necessary to create groups and grouping. As it is quite common for a module to have several ways of organizing groups, such as the groups of lectures (e.g. EAP001-Lecture-Onsite-01), groups of tutorials (e.g. EAP001-Tutorial-Onsite-01), group project (e.g. Group 1). The teacher need to tell the system which collection of group should be used in the activity. Then it is the time to use grouping. You can regard a 'grouping' as a collection of groups.

The different between groups and grouping:

• Group: The member of groups are students.
• Grouping: 'a collection of groups'. The member of grouping are groups, e.g. Group 1, Group 2, etc.

Select the 'Participants' tab on the navigation;
Click 'Enrolled users' to unfold the drop-down list;
Select 'Groups';

In the 'Groups' tab, it shows the existing groups. You can add new groups.

Select the 'Participants' tab on the navigation;
Click 'Enrolled users' to unfold the drop-down list;
Select 'Groupings';
Create a new grouping by clicking on 'create grouping' button;

In the following page, give a name of the grouping and click 'save changes' button.

Then, a new grouping appears. Please click the highlighted icon below to add groups into the grouping.

1. Select groups that you want to add into the grouping from the box on the right. 
2. Click 'Add' button.
3. Then the selected groups will be shown on the left side box.

Then, the groups are shown in the grouping.

Then, you can add the groups and grouping in the activity.

For example:

In Peer Assessment activity, click 'edit' then 'edit settings'. Then in the 'common module settings', choose 'separate groups' in 'Group mode' setting and then choose the grouping you created.

In Assignment activity, click 'edit' then 'edit settings'. Then in the 'Group submission settings', choose 'Yes' in 'Students submit in groups' setting and then choose the grouping you created.