Moodle allows instructors to organize students into groups and groupings to customize access to course content for different cohorts taking the same course. Groups are collections of users while groupings are associations of groups, users, or both to course activities and resources. This enables things like releasing content to specific tutorial classes on their class day or restricting forum access for online versus on-campus students.

1. Using Groups and Groupings
Mark, KerryJ and Fred

2. Why use the same course for different cohorts?

3. Why use the same course for different cohorts?

4. How does Moodle make it possible?
Groups
Groupings
Of people
Of Groups

5. This is
Fred.
This is
Fred’s blue
group.
Blue group
belongs to
purple
GROUPING
Course
Groups/groupings relationship

6. Course
No groups
Forum Readings

7. Visible groups
Course

8. Separate groups
Course

9. Groupings
?
Course

10. B
Can Fred see the forum?
Course

11. Scenario: Online groups and F2F students
Onlin
e
Course
Online

12. Scenario: Online groups and F2F students
Onlin
e
Course
Online

13. Onlin
e
Course
Online
Scenario: Online groups and F2F students

14. Course
Scenario: Online groups and F2F students

15. B
Can Fred see the readings?

16. Scenario: Slow release content
Different classes of students have tutorials on different days.
Course coordinator wanted to delay release of learning
tasks until after tutorials.

23. Using Groups and Groupings
Mark, Kerry and Fred
For some reason I want
to go bowling. And I want
a choccie chip biscuit…