Working with user groups
As the list of users grows, it quickly becomes difficult to manage users individually. This is one of the reasons why administrators generally prefer to manage groups of users.
When creating user groups, you want to group users based on common characteristics. This can be the members of a team, users working at a specific location, users speaking a certain language, users that have the same manager, users that have the same role, and so on. Grouping people in this way has several advantages:
- First, it facilitates users and skills management. For example, you can enroll a group of users in a course rather than enrolling each learner individually. You can also assign skills to user groups rather than assigning skills to each user.
- It also simplifies the automation of certain tasks. For example, when a user becomes a manager (that is, when the user becomes a member of the managers’ group), that user is automatically enrolled in the management...