Creating and managing groupings

A "grouping" is a collection of groups. They allow you to quickly create and selectively release activities or resources to a number of groups.

The easiest way to explain groups and groupings is with the help of an example/ scenario. 

One of the assessment task students have to complete on ART1000 is a group presentation. To help them communicate and plan their work, the tutors want to create a discussion forum for each group. Here is how they can easily do this:

1. Create groups and allocate members to each group
2. Create a grouping that is made up of all the groups
3. Create a discussion forum and release it to the grouping just created. As a result each group now has their own discussion forum. 

Create a Grouping

1. In the Settings block select Users and then Groups
2. At the top of the screen, click on Groupings
   
   
   
   
3. Click on Create Grouping 
   
   
4. Enter the name.
   
   
   It is recommended that you fill out the description to remind you (and your colleagues) of the purpose and composition of the grouping. 
5. Click Save changes.
6. Click on the show groups in grouping icon (the third from the left)
   
   
   
   
7. Holding down the CTRL key/ Command key select the groups
   
   
   
8. Click Add

The final step is to now set up the activity and use the grouping set up to scale the activity.

You can use grouping to:

• set up group discussion forums
• set up group wikis
• set up group attendance
• Set up a Moodle assignment or Turnitin assignment for a grouping.