{"id":73,"date":"2013-12-12T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/catrestest\/?p=73"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:58:39","slug":"creating-groups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"07. Creating Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Information\"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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. From your course page, go to the Administration block and click\u00a0\"Edit.<\/li>\n
  2. Scroll down to the\u00a0\"Groups\"\u00a0section and click it to expand it.<\/li>\n
  3. Change the\u00a0\"Group\u00a0drop-down to either\u00a0\"Separate\u00a0or\u00a0\"Visible. 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.<\/li>\n
  4. Click\u00a0\"Save<\/a>\u00a0at the bottom of the page.<\/li>\n
  5. In the Administration Block, click the\u00a0\"Users\"\u00a0menu to expand it, and then click\u00a0\"Groups\".<\/li>\n
  6. Click the\u00a0\"Create\u00a0button.<\/li>\n
  7. Enter a\u00a0\"Group\u00a0and click\u00a0\"Save.<\/li>\n
  8. Select your new group in the\u00a0\"Groups\"\u00a0column on the left, then click the\u00a0\"Add\/remove\u00a0button.<\/li>\n
  9. Click the students you want to add from the\u00a0\"Potential\u00a0menu on the right and click the\u00a0\"Add\"\u00a0button. You may have to use the\u00a0\"Search\"\u00a0field below the student list to find the ones you want. When done, click the\u00a0\"Back\u00a0button.<\/li>\n
  10. Repeat steps 6 through 9 for each group you wish to create.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232757,33297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-started-with-moodle","category-moodle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/quickguides\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}