About groups and group privacy
Groups are useful in three typical cases:
- share courses, sessions and paths to a set of users (instead of individually to each learner);
- track statistics per group;
- 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.
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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.
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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.
- In the left sidebar of the homepage, at the bottom left, click on a group you’re administrating.
- At the top right, click
...
>Settings
. - In the left sidebar, click
Hierarchy
. - At the top right of the list of groups, click
+
. - Enter the
Name of the group
. - In
Is the group public or private?
, selectPublic
orPrivate
.- See About groups and group privacy for more information on the difference between public and private.
- At the bottom right, click
CREATE
.
Change group privacy
See Change the privacy (private/public) of a group.
Add users to a group
See Invite a user from a group.
Remove users from a group
See Remove an account from a group without deleting it from the platform.