Moodle - How to populate groups/teams (staff/faculty)

Groups in Moodle are usually populated by program staff.

There are two approaches to populating groups:

Adding Participants To A Group: select a group from a list of groups and add participants to the group. If you're working with a list of groups this may be the best method.

Adding Groups To Participants: select a participant from a list of participants and add group/s to that participant. If you're working with a list of participants this may be the best method.

Adding Participants To A Group

From the main course page, select Participants from the menu at the top.

Select Groups from the drop-down menu.

This example has four groups: Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, and Team 4.

Select the group you would like to populate, and select the Add/remove users button.

add user to team

Select participants from the right pane and select the Add button to add them to the group on the left. You can quickly find a participant by typing their name or part of their name in the Search box below. Also, you can select multiple students by holding down the Control key on your keyboard when you select participants.

add user

Once the group is populated, select the Back to groups button. From there you can select another group and repeat the process if needed.

back to groups

Adding Groups To Participants

From the main course page, select Participants from the menu at the top.

Next to the student you would like to add to a group, select the Edit groups for.. button.

Select the group to add the user to and select the Save button. You can add a participant to multiple groups.

You'll see that the student has been added to the group. If needed, you can repeat the process and add more students to groups.

two teams




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