Creating Groups and Groupings

Sloodle tutorial

Why add groups and groupings?

• Groups and groupings allow teachers across an entire cohort to post resources and activities to a course that can only be seen by their own students

• Groups and groupings also allow teachers to select particular students in a list of the entire cohort when marking a quiz, activity or assignment

• This may also be useful for classes in the same subject where students are covering different material (i.e. texts in English)

• It may also be useful for differentiating content without unduly drawing focus to students who require additional scaffolding, instructions or other support.

1. Go to your course, under the settings box, click Users, and select groups

2. Click create group, under the GROUPS box, then type the group name and click save changes.

3. Two ways to add students.First way - with your group highlighted, click add/remove users under MEMBERS OF: box

4. Type the name of the student, select the student, add the student

5. Select any other students and click back to groups

6. Second way - After creating the group – click on SETTINGS BOX> USERS> ENROLLED USERS

7. Go through the list of enrolled users, and select the + symbol under the groups column to add them to your group.

8. Adding groupings after you have established your groups – this will allow you to restrict resources and activities to particular classes.

• Click on SETTINGS>USERS>GROUPS and click on the Groupings TAB at the top of the page

9. Click create grouping

10. Add a name for your group and click save changes

11. Click the icon of the people in the EDIT box under the GROUPINGS screen, then select the group you want to add to the grouping and click add.

12. Click BACK TO GROUPINGS

• You now have the ability to group resources and activities – this will be an option when you are setting up the activity.

• This may seem like a long process, but if each teacher looks after their own group and grouping set up, it will not take a long time.