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How do I enrol users into a group within a course?

Cohorts are used to bulk enrol users into one or more courses. If you wish the cohort to be members of a group within the course you will then have to add them to a group in a further step.

How to search for course groups in Moodle?

This database scheme allows to search for course groups or user groups in a single query, as in pre-1.8 moodle. Any required group-data may be obtained by either a join of usually just two tables, or two separate queries, one for grouping and other for groups in grouping.

How to add users to a group in Moodle?

Steps to add users to a group 1.8. Add/remove users Moodle 1.8. To assign users to a group: On the Groups page, click the "Add/remove users" button. In the "Potential members" list, select the students you want to add to the group. Click the arrow button that points towards the "Existing members" list.

What are groupings and how to use them?

Groupings are sets of groups related in use or functional logic. Use of groupings should be optional, not mandatory (preserve old-style, pre-1.8, groups usage). A group may belong to several groupings. Real use is easier to setup if this flexibility is allowed.

How do I assign students to groups in Moodle?

To assign users to a group:On the Groups page, click the "Add/remove users" button.In the "Potential members" list, select the students you want to add to the group.Click the arrow button that points towards the "Existing members" list.

How do I add multiple users to a Moodle course?

Re: How to enrol one user into multiple courses at once? You can go to site admin --> courses --> select your course --> users --> Enrolled users. From the list of users, click on the Assign Role icon against the user and select the required Role to be assigned.

How do I get a list of participants in Moodle?

Click the top left Menu icon to toggle open the sidebar, and click Participants. To just see the students, select All Students from the Current Role pull-down menu on the right. All Students includes both students, and those in the course as petitioners.

How do I move users in Moodle?

Go to Settings>Site administration>Users>Accounts>Bulk user actions and select the users you wish to export. From the dropdown "With selected users", choose "download" and choose the type of file you wish to download from text, ODS or Excel.

How do you use cohorts in Moodle?

Adding users to a cohort in bulkAccess Administration > Site administration > Users > Accounts > Bulk user actions.Find users by setting an appropriate filter.Add users from the available list to the selected list.Choose 'Add to cohort' with selected users.

How do I assign a user to a course in Moodle?

Add teachers and studentsLog in with your administrator account and go to the course where you want to add teachers and students.From the left panel (Navigation drawer) click Participants.Click Enrol users.From the dropdowns, select the users you want and the role you want to give them:

How do I download participants from Moodle?

To export a list of participants, choose the option “Export“ and your favored format. In the following page, additional settings can be chosen. Afterwards, click “Submit”. Now, you can see the data that will be exported.

How do I remove participants from a Moodle course Site?

In the Navigation panel on the left of your Moodle site, click on "Participants". Find a student who has dropped. In the Status column, there will be an orange box that says "Dropped", and to the far right of their row will be an unenroll (trash) icon. Click the unenroll icon for a student to remove them from the list.

How do I hide last seen on Moodle?

This is how it's done (version 1.8 and 1.9) : Go to the admin menu - users - permissions - user policies. Scroll down to the bottom of the page -' hide user fields' and click on 'last access'.

How do I bulk suspend a user in Moodle?

Create a . CSV File containing the users you wish to suspendNavigate to Site administration ► Users ► Accounts ► Bulk user actions.Go to new filter and press on show more this will bring up a full list of filters you can apply.More items...

How do I export a Moodle course?

Exporting Content From Moodle From within a course, from the course Administration menu, choose Backup. Select whether to export as a Common Cartridge or a native Moodle file. Follow the succession of screens, to complete the process.

How do I use a flat file in Moodle?

An administrator can enable flat file enrolment as follows:Go to Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins and click the eye icon opposite Flat file (CSV). ... Click the settings link, configure as required (see details of settings below), then click the 'Save changes' button.

How to add groups to a course?

To add groups to a grouping: In your course, click Administration > Course administration > Users > Groups. Click the groupings tab: If necessary, create a new grouping by clicking the create grouping button on the groupings page. An optional grouping ID number (an advanced setting) may be added for matching the grouping against external systems. ...

How to use grouping in activity?

To use a particular grouping in an activity: In the "edit settings" link of the Settings block for the activity, click the "Show advanced" button in the common module settings section. Ensure that the group mode is set to separate or visible groups. Select the grouping from the grouping dropdown menu.

How to be an Olympian?

To be part of the United States Olympic Team, you must first be a swimmer, a gymnast, or a runner. You cannot be in the US Team without first being an athlete in a specific sport. The sport is your group.

What is a grouping?

A grouping is a collection of groups within a course. Using groupings allows you to direct tasks at one or more groups in your course, so that they can work together on the tasks.

Setting the default grouping

Once some groupings have been created, a default grouping for course activities and resources may be set.

Restricting an activity, resource or course topic to a grouping

To be able to restrict an activity, resource or course topic to a grouping, Restrict access must be enabled. This will result in a 'Restrict access' section in the activity, resource or topic settings and a grouping restriction can then be added.

How to see other groups in a course?

TIP: To see other groups in this list, you will have to go to the Course administration>Groups tab and use the Auto-create groups button. One you set the auto create fields, then a group will appear under this heading in addition to "Default".

How many levels can a group be used on?

A group or grouping can be used on two levels:

What is the activity level in a group?

Activity level - each activity that supports groups can also have its own group mode defined. The course setting under Groups must have "Force" set to "No" to allow individual activities to allow their own group settings to work.

What is a force group mode?

A "force" group mode at the course-level, will override any individual activity "group mode" setting, with the one set in the course.

What is a template:Course admin?

Template:Course admin Enabling Groups will allow the teacher to create sets of students. By default, the groups settings are turned off in a course. Groups can be used in the Context of a course or in a specific course activity.

Why do teachers use group mode?

The course group mode is useful when the teacher is going to add several activities with the same group setting. In a course with many activities that have different group mode settings, a teacher might enter them in batches, using the group course setting to save time.

Can each group see their own group?

Each group can only see their own group, others are invisible.

How to enroll a group of users to a course?

I want to perform a quiz program for 150 employes at a time. I dont want them to enroll to my course separately. I want to create a group with 150 users and i should be able to enroll this group to a course, then automatically the 150 users under this group should be enrolled for this course.

Re: How to enroll a group of users to a course?

If you are using Moodle 2, have you looked at Cohorts? http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Cohorts

What is the 'groups mode' setting?

You can have several classes/groups working in a single course with different (or the same) teacher. Groups mode is a way of filtering the students so that work and grades can be accessed separately. See Groups for more information. There are three different groups modes – No groups, Separate Groups, Visible Groups.

What is the difference between a cohort and a group?

A group exists only within a course. You might have a class 10B for example which you want to enrol in course 1 and course 2. The group would need to be created in both courses and its members enrolled separately in both courses. Cohorts are groups of users created by admin which can then be brought in "en masse" to courses.

What is the 'force' setting?

If force is set to yes, then all activities are group activities. This overrides any settings for individual activities. If force is set to no, then activities are only group activities if they have been set to group mode. In this case, each activity requires to be set to group mode individually.

Can I automatically add users to a group at the same time that I enroll them via a csv file?

Yes. One of the optional field names that can be uploaded in the flat file is "group1, group2, etc". The group must be associated to the corresponding course and the course short name used in the field course1. If the group doesn't already exist then Moodle will create the group.

How do I assign a teacher to a group? Can a teacher be in more than one group?

You can assign a teacher to a group in exactly the same way that you assign a student to a group.

How do I restrict a teacher to view only information about the groups that they are in?

For Separate Groups mode, the capability moodle/site:accessallgroups may be used to restrict access to all groups in a particular context. If this capability is removed from the teacher role (either within a course or globally if appropriate) then they will only see the students they teach when accessing the gradebook for example.

What determines whether students can see a teacher's profile?

A student can see the profile of all teachers that are members of their group or that have edit rights.

How to group course ?

I'm developping a plugin. I want to create a table 'courseGroup' which may have a lot of courses.

Re: How to group course ?

Lots of things are possible, including this - but are you absolutely sure that this is something that could not be solved using cohorts and cohort sync enrolment?

Re: How to group course ?

To check I understand correctly, you want to display the Course Groups where a user has a certain role within one of the courses?

How to associate groupings in a module?

To make possible to associate a grouping to a module instance a “groupingid” field must be added to the course_modules table. In the same way course table declare a “groupingid” field to hold the default grouping to use in visible/separate group modes. In both cases, there should be no obligation to declare or use a grouping at any level. A default value groupingid=0 must be used in both tables. Groupings/groups managing functions must understand groupingid=0 as meaning to use ALL groups belonging to a course in a flat list (default function in pre-1.8 versions)

What is groupings infrastructure?

Groupings are sets of groups related in use or functional logic. Use of groupings should be optional, not mandatory (preserve old-style, pre-1.8, groups usage). A group may belong to several groupings.

What is grouping special?

A grouping Special may be defined containing just one group (with students of any section) or several groups of “special” students, one from each section/lab. This may be used to get private content by each teacher in a course. Let say professorA teaches Section1 theory and Lab2 practices.

Why would a separation of two parts make coding easier?

This separation would make the coding much easier because the two parts would be independent - local grouping would not be breaking the course separation rule (anything outside of course breaks normal backup/restore).

What does "exclusive" mean in a grouping?

exclusive - to allow multiple-group membership within a grouping or impose single-group membership: a user can be member of just one an d only one group of this grouping.

What is groupmode in a configuration form?

The configuration form for each activity includes a setting for groupmode: “no groups”, “visible groups” or “separate groups”. If the activity (or resource) is configured in any of the later two (visible/separate) then a new option “Use grouping” must be set. This parameter controls the particular set of groups to be used within the activity.

What is courseid=0?

Courseid=0 would label global groups. Tables groups_courses_groups and groups_courses_groupings would be no longer needed. Special logic should be introduced into functions in groups libraries to manage this exception, global groups.

Adding Groups to A Grouping

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To add groups to a grouping: 1. In your course, click Administration > Course administration > Users > Groups. 2. Click the groupings tab: 1. If necessary, create a new grouping by clicking the create grouping button on the groupings page. An optional grouping ID number (an advanced setting) may be added for matching th…
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Setting The Default Grouping

  • Once some groupings have been created, a default grouping for course activities and resources may be set. 1. Follow the settings link in the course administration block. 2. In the groups section in the course settings, select the default grouping. The default grouping is used on the Participants page.
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Selecting Grouping in Activity

  • To use a particular grouping in an activity: 1. In the "edit settings" link of the Settings block for the activity, click the "Show advanced" button in the common module settings section. 2. Ensure that the group mode is set to separate or visible groups. 3. Select the grouping from the grouping dropdown menu. 4. Check the "Available for group members only" box (this is an experimental fe…
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Restricting A Whole Topic to A Grouping

  • Clicking the Restrict access button in each topic summary which allows you to select a particular grouping for that topic section. To enable this setting, you need to enable both Conditional activities and Available for group members only
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Examples of Groupings

  • It sometimes helps to think of a grouping as a Romulan cloaking deviceThose groups inside it know of their existence but other groups within the course cannot see them.
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One Way to Visualise Groupings

  • Olympic metaphor: at the Olympics, there are different sports (gymnastics, swimming, track) and many countries. There are two ways to think of an Olympian athlete: by the sport they compete in, and by their nationality. To be part of the United States Olympic Team, you must first be a swimmer, a gymnast, or a runner. You cannot be in the US Team without first being an athlete in …
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See Also

  1. Available for group members only
  2. Importing users into groupings via CSV
  3. Groupings FAQ
  4. Using Moodle Moodle Groups vs. Groupingsforum discussion including youtube video showing how to set up groupings
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What Is A Grouping?

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After you have created a group, adding a user, or removing a user is simple. Highlight the user and click the add or remove button. Here are the specific steps: 1. Click on the Groups icon in the course administration block 2. Select the group in the left column, or create the group and then select it 3. Click on "Add/remove use…
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Adding Groups to A Grouping

Setting The Default Grouping

Selecting A Grouping For An Activity

  • A grouping is a collection of groups within a course. Using groupings allows you to direct tasks at one or more groups in your course, so that they can work together on the tasks.
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Restricting An Activity, Resource Or Course Topic to A Grouping

  • To add groups to a grouping: 1. In your course, click Administration > Course administration > Users > Groups. 2. Click the groupings tab. 3. If necessary, create a new grouping by clicking the create grouping button on the groupings page. An optional grouping ID number (an advanced setting) may be added for matching the grouping against external s...
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See Also

  • Once some groupings have been created, a default grouping for course activities and resources may be set. 1. Follow the settings link in the course administration block. 2. In the groups section in the course settings, select the default grouping. The default grouping is used on the Participants page.
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Group Mode

  • To use a particular grouping in an activity: 1. Click the 'Edit settings' link for the activity 2. In the common module settings section, set a group mode 3. Select the grouping from the grouping dropdown menu. 4. Click the "Save changes" button at the bottom of the page. If the group mode is set to separate groups, students will only see the activities they have been assigned to. Teach…
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Force

  • To be able to restrict an activity, resource or course topic to a grouping, Restrict accessmust be enabled. This will result in a 'Restrict access' section in the activity, resource or topic settings and a grouping restriction can then be added.
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Default Grouping

Using Groups in Course Or Activity

  • This settings defines the default group mode for all activities in the course, by a pull down menu. The group setting can affect what users see in the course Participantslist. There are 3 group mode choices: Visible, Separate and No groups. 1. TIP:When force mode is set to no, group mode merely acts as a default setting for each new activity. However, when force mode is set to yes, t…
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See Also

  • A "force" group mode at the course-level, will override any individual activity "group mode" setting, with the one set in the course. 1. In the course example show above in "group mode" we had two activities, one set for visible group mode and the other set for separate group and the course Force was set to "No". In the example below, the teacher changed the settings in the same cours…
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