Environment: StFX's Course Content Platform, Kwe' (Moodle). Available at moodle.stfx.ca
Purpose: This article is intended to help the instructor with student group management. It assumes that the groups you wish to manage currently exist. If the groups do not exist, you must first create them.
- For information on creating activity groups one at a time, please refer to the article "Creating groups in Kwe' (Moodle)".
- For information on creating the TCAL group, please refer to the article, “Create the Tramble Centre for Accessible Learning (TCAL) Group in Moodle”.
- For information on creating multiple activity groups at once, please refer to the article “Auto-Create Activity Groups and Activity Group Membership Link”.
There are two different options for populating existing groups and this article will cover both options.
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Instructions
Option 1 – Using the Participants list
- Log in to Moodle and open the course you want to work with..
- Click Participants tab at the top of the Moodle course page.
Adding a student to a group
- Scroll through the list to find the student you want to add to a group.
- Click the pencil icon in the Groups column for that student.
- Select the name of the group (from the drop-down list) you want to add the student to.
- Click the floppy disk icon above the group selection area to save your changes.
- Verify that the selected group name appears in the Groups column for the student.
- Repeat these steps for any other students you want to add to a group.
Removing a student from the group
- Scroll through the list to the student you want to remove from a group.
- Click the pencil icon in the Groups column for that student.
- Click X to the left of the group name from which you want to remove the student.
- Click the floppy disk icon above the group selection area to save your changes.
- Verify that the group name no longer appears in the Groups column for the student.
- Repeat for any other students you want to remove from a group.
Moving a student from one group to another
- Follow the steps above to first remove them from their current group.
- Add them to the desired group.
Option 2 - Using the Group list
- Log in to Moodle and open the course you want to work with.
- Click Participants at the top of the Moodle course page.
- Select Groups from the drop-down menu directly under the course name (default shows Enrolled Users).
- Click on the name of the group you want to manage in the left panel of the new window that opens.
- Click Add/remove users (under the right panel).
- The system displays a new screen with two panels:
- The left panel displays current members of the group.
- The right panel displays a list of all the other people in the course (students, professor, teaching assistants) who are not members of the group.
Adding a student to the group
- Click the name of the student to be added to this group (from the right panel).
- Click Add.
- The student’s name moves to the left panel, and they are now a member of that group.
- Repeat for any other students to be added to this group.
- Click Back to groups.
- Click Course at the top of the Moodle course page to get back to the main course page.
Removing a student from the group
- Click on the name of the student to be removed from this group (from the left panel).
- Click Remove.
- The student’s name moves from the left panel to the right panel, and they are no longer a member of that group.
- Repeat for any other students to be removed from this group.
- Click Back to groups.
- Click Course tab at the top of the Moodle course page to get back to the main course page.
Moving a student from one group to another
- Follow the steps above to remove them from their current group.
- Add them to the desired group.
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