Moodle allows you to organize your students into groups. Groups can be useful for having different sets of students work on different assignments, or allowing you to communicate with or grade only certain subsets of students in courses of significant size. Additionally, creating groups will also allow you to define course sections within an umbrellaed course.

1. From your course page, go to the Administration block and click .
2. Scroll down to the  section and click it to expand it.
3. Change the  drop-down to either  or . In separate groups, each group member can only see their own group. In visible groups, each group member works in their own group, but can also see other groups.
4. Click  at the bottom of the page.
5. In the Administration Block, click the  menu to expand it, and then click .
6. Click the  button.
7. Enter a  and click .
8. Select your new group in the  column on the left, then click the  button.
9. Click the students you want to add from the  menu on the right and click the  button. You may have to use the  field below the student list to find the ones you want. When done, click the  button.
10. Repeat steps 6 through 9 for each group you wish to create.