I have problems in creating group specific assignments in that I just dont find the possibility to assign a task to a specific group of my course. If this is possible at all how can I do it?
It is not possible in current versions of moodle. The only was around it is 2 either have two (or more) assignments or different courses for the groups 
You could hack the installation to get this to work. I think a solution was posted in either the conditional activities forum or the developers forum
You could hack the installation to get this to work. I think a solution was posted in either the conditional activities forum or the developers forum
Thanks for the quick answer! I quickly tried one of the hacks, but it didnt work ;-(
This will need more work.
Do You know whether there are plans to integrate a feature like that in future versions of Moodle (as suggested by some of the posts)?
Would be nice for our purpose (Swiss High School), since most teachers work with several classes in parallel that have slightly different time tables and assignments. If all material/assignments are visible to all groups this may be disencouraging our teachers to use moodle.
best regards Rudi
This will need more work.
Do You know whether there are plans to integrate a feature like that in future versions of Moodle (as suggested by some of the posts)?
Would be nice for our purpose (Swiss High School), since most teachers work with several classes in parallel that have slightly different time tables and assignments. If all material/assignments are visible to all groups this may be disencouraging our teachers to use moodle.
best regards Rudi
Martin has indicated that something like this will appear in a future version. Version 2 I think. The process seems to be still at the stage of what do people want and how will it work with people coming up with little hacks. It's a long way off at this stage I would say.
I create different courses for different sections of the same course.
example: Biology has Biology 9-01 and Biology 9-02. The teachers actually find it easy as well because they can see the clear differences between the course sections.
The groups function is not what you are looking for. Think of the group function as dividing a particular classroom into groups. i.e. you all cover chapter 3, and this group cover chapter 5. Same room, just grouped off.
An aside: One day I was away for a conference and I spent all this time uploading the lesson activities for the students. When I came back none of the students had done the work. I realized I posted in the wrong section, and that class met next week. Ouch. Hard to account for errors between the keyboard and the chair...
example: Biology has Biology 9-01 and Biology 9-02. The teachers actually find it easy as well because they can see the clear differences between the course sections.
The groups function is not what you are looking for. Think of the group function as dividing a particular classroom into groups. i.e. you all cover chapter 3, and this group cover chapter 5. Same room, just grouped off.
An aside: One day I was away for a conference and I spent all this time uploading the lesson activities for the students. When I came back none of the students had done the work. I realized I posted in the wrong section, and that class met next week. Ouch. Hard to account for errors between the keyboard and the chair...
Thanks a lot for this input, Your experience sounds clearcut and convincing 
A question: How would You suggest to handle common ressources for parallel classes? Do we have to put them into each of the parallel courses?
thanks Rudi
A question: How would You suggest to handle common ressources for parallel classes? Do we have to put them into each of the parallel courses?
thanks Rudi
Not got to grips with them myself yet but it seems Joyce Smith has posted useful info on sharing resources by using 'meta courses'.
This is a summary of correspondence about a range of meta course questions.
She has also posted a different acrobat file elsewhere (sorry cannot find it again right now) that deals with resources shared using metacourses.
Andy
Hi Rudi,
I just had a similar situation recently. I wanted to give out separate assignments to different groups.
One way to work around this is to post the assignment in a Separate Group Fourm. This way ony the Group you choose to post the assignment to will get it and the other groups will not be able to see it.
I just had a similar situation recently. I wanted to give out separate assignments to different groups.
One way to work around this is to post the assignment in a Separate Group Fourm. This way ony the Group you choose to post the assignment to will get it and the other groups will not be able to see it.
Hi Bill,
Thanks for this idea, which I will keep in mind. It looks like we have to start from a course for each of the parallel classes, but inside these the idea of splitting into groups and specifically adressing the groups via Forum will sure be a good solution.
Thanks for this idea, which I will keep in mind. It looks like we have to start from a course for each of the parallel classes, but inside these the idea of splitting into groups and specifically adressing the groups via Forum will sure be a good solution.