Let Students Pick their Moodle Groups

Enter your course and turn Edit mode on.

Scroll to where you want to add the Group choice activity.

Click the plus symbol to access the Add content drop-down menu.

NOTE: If you want to add between two existing activities or resources you will need to hover over the dashed line to have the Add content link appear.

Select Activity or resource option from the drop down.

Select Group choice from the Activity Chooser.

Under the General section, set the Group choice name and description.

Under the Miscellaneous settings section:

1. Set Publish results to reflect if and when students can see who has selected each group.
   DEFAULT SETTING: Always show results to students
2. Set Privacy of results to determine if you want to show student names.
   DEFAULT SETTING: Publish full results, showing names and their choices
3. Set Allow choice to be updated to
   • Yes if students can change their group later
   • No: if students cannot change groups.
4. Set Show column for unanswered to Yes if you would like to see how many students have not yet selected a group. NOTE: Students cannot see this column.
5. Set Limit the number of responses allowed to Enabled, and the General limitation to the largest number of participants you want to allow in a single group.
6. Click the Apply to all groups button.

Under the Groups section:

• Select a Grouping (will appear bold and have an arrow to expand)
• Click the Add grouping button.

NOTE: You can add groups instead of a grouping by holding down the Ctrl or Cmd button, selecting the groups, and clicking the Add group button.

Enable Restrict answering to this time period and set the Open and Until times for when students can use the group choice to select their own groups.

NOTE: Once that deadline is passed, you can manually assign students that have not selected a group.

Click the Save and display button.