Manually Add Students to Groups

Moodle Groups offer a way to organize students to work collaboratively on Moodle activities such as forums and assignments. You can also utilize restrict access and groups to customize the learning experience allowing certain groups to access specialized content.

NOTE: You need to enable and create groups within your course before you can complete these steps to populate your groups.

Scroll to the top of your course page.

Select Participants from the secondary navigation.

Select Groups from the drop-down menu.

NOTE: If you don’t see the Groups option listed you need to enable groups in your course.

Select the group you want to add participants to.

NOTE: If you don’t see the group listed you need to create the group in your course.

Click the Add/remove users button.

On the Add/remove users screen:

  • Select the participants you want to add to the group. NOTE: Multiple participants may be selected by holding down the Ctrl or Command key.
  • Click the Add button.

Click the Back to groups button to return to the groups page.

Repeat steps 3-5 as necessary to populate each Group.