Moodle plugins directory: Group self-selection

Activities: Group self-selection

mod_groupselect

Maintained by

Roger Barras

Lets students create and select groups.

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Lets students create and select groups.

Features:

Students can create groups, give them a description and set them password protected, if wanted
Students can select and join groups
Supervisors may be assigned to groups
Teacher can export course group list as a csv-file
Full compatibility with basic Moodle groups: groups may be created by other means if needed, supports group assignment submissions etc.

Many thanks to all contributors for this module, including original authors Petr Škoda and Helen Foster and previous maintainer Pirkka Pyykkönen

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Contributors

Roger Barras (Lead maintainer)

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Petr Skoda: Original author

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Pirkka Pyykkönen: Previous maintainer

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Marina Glancy

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Comments

Stephen Wise
Fri, Jan 5, 2018, 12:28 AM
Could you possibly make this so that a new group can be created by a student even if they are already in a group?
My course has several groups that students can be a part of but I also want them to be able to create their own groups.
Tamara Vaughan
Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 3:33 AM
Will this activity be available for versions beyond Moodle 3.3? We'll be upgrading to 3.4 shortly and are hoping we'll continue to benefit from the Group self-selection activity after we upgrade if possible!
Roger Barras
Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 4:02 PM
We work for a release 3.14 that will support moodle 3.3 and 3.4 with their, we fixed some bugs and made some smaller but usefull improvements. Eg. we now support the timeline overview in moodle or it is possible to create more than one group for students.
A test release is available in the github repo, but only use it for testing.
The official Release will be probably available next week.
Marga Inaraja
Tue, Oct 9, 2018, 6:19 PM
Hello Roger,

Thanks for this useful plugin.

I'm just wondering if is possible for the students to upload a group image. It would be great.

Thank you!
Marga
Lee Bannister
Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 12:38 AM
Hi, this is a great activity. Solves a big problem I am having this year but after setting it up I have noticed a few things that could be included. If possible, could the completion settings include mark complete if the user is in a group? Also is it possible to hide the "Members" column so that users (in my case students) cannot see the names of other students in each group/option?
Dave Emsley
Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 11:00 PM
Impressed. Very useful plug in. However it seems as though the completion has to be manual or none at all. Would it be possible to make the completion automatic when a student chooses a group?
Roger Barras
Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 3:47 AM
@Marga yes i will review this requirement and added the issue
@Lee Using seperate groups will hide the members of other groups. Do you also like to hide the members of the same group?
@Lee and @Dave Yes it makes sense to add such a rule for completion I added the issue

Thank you for your input
Dmitry Bykhovsky
Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 9:04 PM
Hi. I have some students that could not found a group with their friends. I want to randomly organize them in groups. Is there a convenient way to: a) show a list of yet un-grouped students and, b) auto-create groups for these students. Currently, I have only found a way to list self-grouped students and auto-group/re-group already self-grouped students.
Roger Barras
Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:38 AM
@Dmitry
a) You can use the participants page and filter for Group:no groups
b) I think you could use the Auto-create groups feature of moodle for this.
Guiga Figueiredo
Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 4:13 AM
Hi! I really love the plugin, but I don't know why the password field is not showing when a student tries to create a group. Can you help?
Danny iuytoiu
Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 7:48 PM
We fixed some bugs and made some smaller but usefull improvements. Eg. we now support the timeline overview in moodle or it is possible to create more than one group for students https://vidmate.ooo/.
Stephen Gormley
Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 6:42 AM
When using group self-selection as a student role holder, the student cannot see the list of student members who have already signed up for a group (as per screenshot #5). Is there any way to address this so that the student role holder can see who are signed up in the groups before they make their selection? For example, are there any permission settings that can be changed for the student role?

Many thanks,

Steve
Adam Barbary
Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 11:20 AM
Hi Roger,

I just wondering if you would be able to include a switch to enable the group chat setting for Moodle 3.6?

Kind regards,

Adam
Lee Bannister
Sat, May 11, 2019, 4:01 AM
@ Roger Barras - Yes I would like it so that students cannot see any students in other groups, which I know is easy using separate groups, but I also don't want them to know who in their group when selecting. This way there is no outside influence on their choice, they can pick what they want not what their friends have already chosen.
Lee Bannister
Thu, May 23, 2019, 2:45 AM
@ Roger Barras - Can you add an option in the settings to hide the Members column?

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