Time for action – creating student groups

1. Return to the course front page. Click on the Groups link in the Settings block under Course administration, then Users:

   

2. Press the Create group button:

   

3. Give your group a name and, optionally a description (more on this shortly).

4. You can optionally specify a picture to represent the group (again, more on this in a moment).

5. When you are done press the Save changes button. Your new group is now added to the list of available groups (the number in brackets after the group name indicates how many users are in it):

   

What just happened?

We've just created a new group, albeit so far with no one in it. As with most things in Moodle you aren't committing yourself when you specify configuration settings. When configuring groups there are usually two settings that I return to once the group has some members:

• I start leaving the group description blank and then ask the group, when they first get together, how they would like to describe themselves. If the course...