Create a group

About groups and group privacy

Groups are useful in three typical cases:

1. Share courses, sessions and paths to a set of users (instead of individually to each learner).
2. Track statistics per group.
3. Create a community where people can help each other.

A group can be public or private. Administrators of a group automatically have administrator permissions on all groups below it.

• Public
  • Members of the group can be seen by other members of the group, and members of all publicly connected groups.
  • Learners of the group are automatically added to all higher level groups, until and including the first private group encountered.
  • Comments (in the forum of a course’s activity or a Learning Need) published in the group can be seen by members of the group, and members of all publicly connected groups.
  • Messages (in the newsfeed of a group, or the profile page of a user) published in the group can only be seen by members of the group.
• Private
  • Members of the group can be seen by other members of the group, and members of all publicly connected groups.
  • Comments (in the forum of a course’s activity or a Learning Need) published in the group can be seen by members of the group, and members of all publicly connected groups.
  • Messages (in the newsfeed of a group, or the profile page of a user) published in the group can only be seen by members of the group.

A group is publicly connected to another group if they share the same lowest private ancestor; there must be a public connection between them through the group hierarchy links.

In particular, a private group is publicly connected to all public groups below it, that are not separated by another private group.

Create a group

Administrators can create groups. They automatically become an administrator of the new group.

1. In the left sidebar of the homepage, click on a group you are administrating. This group will become the parent of the group you are creating.
2. At the top right, click Settings.
3. In the left column, click Hierarchy.
4. At the top right of the list, click .
5. In the Name field, enter the name of the group.
6. In the Group Privacy section, select either Private or Public.
   For more information on the difference between public and private groups, see About groups and group privacy.
7. (Optional) Click CHANGE to change the parent of the group.
8. (Optional) Disable the option Activate Learning Needs for this new group if you don’t want to activate Learning Needs for this group.
9. At the bottom right, click CREATE.

If you have the platform administrator role, you can skip the first 4 steps by clicking → Group at the top right of the homepage.

Change group privacy

See Change the privacy (private/public) of a group.

Customize a group page

See Customize a group page. 

Add users to a group

See Add users to the platform.

Remove users from a group

See Remove an account from a group without deleting it from the platform.

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