Groups in moodle

Groups in moodle

by Liam de Haas -
Number of replies: 4

Hello,

For a school project we need to make groups and group pages in Moodle.

I was wondering what is the best way to go about this? What is the 'easiest' way to go about it?

We thought about using a custom course format for this but we would like students to be able to make groups as well and in the current format they cant make courses and we dont want them to be able to do that either.

If we want to completely make the functionality ourselves what would be a good way to start? I guess we need to add some tables to de database to keep info about the groups and such, but is that even possible?

As you might have guessed we are complete moodle novices.


I hope someone can help us or guide is into the right direction to start.

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Re: Groups in moodle

by Kevin Wiliarty -

Hi Liam,

For a start you'll want to familiarize yourself with the groups and groupings functionality that already exists in Moodle. It might address most of what you need. Groups and groupings are separate concepts. There's a kind of index page with links to detailed documentation at:

https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Grouping_users

The basic idea is that you can put students into groups and then you can put activities and resources into a "groups mode." Depending on what you want to achieve you may then also have to put your groups into groupings.

There are some good video tutorials on YouTube, as well:


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Re: Groups in moodle

by Mary Cooch -
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To be honest, what you want sounds much more suited to Mahara -where groups can work together and make collaborative group pages and share resources. But you have Moodle, not Mahara, so the only thing I would suggest is to have a course per group where each group member has a teacher role and they can share resources within that course, But as for coding this - and as you have posted in the General developer forum I presume you are looking for programming answers, I am afraid I can't help.

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Re: Groups in moodle

by Liam de Haas -

Thanks, mahara looks like it is indeed more suited for our needs but we are really stuck with Moodle cause of european grants etc. Still thanks for the help, your suggestion is something we can consider.

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