Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

Manually creating and populating a group

Don't be discouraged by the idea of manually populating a group with students. It takes only a few clicks to place a student in a group. To create and populate a group, perform the following steps:

1. Select Course administration | Users | Groups. This takes you to the Groups page.
2. Click on the Create group button. The Create group page is displayed.
3. You must enter a Name for the group. This will be the name that teachers and administrators see when they manage a group.
4. The Group ID number is used to match up this group with a group identifier in another system. If your organization uses a system outside Moodle to manage students and this system categorizes students in groups, you can enter the group ...