General plugins (Local): Auto Group
local_autogroup
Maintained by 
Mark Ward, 
Emma Richardson
A local plugin which automatically assigns enrolled users on a course into groups
dependant upon information within their user profile. (Now with custom profile field support - called User Info Field in settings.)
This plugin will create, update, and delete groups automatically
to match the users on your course. All behaviour is event-driven
and so will occur within page loads.
The system can also monitor manual group setting changes and
moderate them to ensure that groups are kept neat and tidy.
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Moodle 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
A local plugin which automatically assigns enrolled users on a course into groups
dependant upon information within their user profile.
This plugin will create, update, and delete groups automatically
to match the users on your course. All behaviour is event-driven
and so will occur within page loads.
The system can also monitor manual group setting changes and
moderate them to ensure that groups are kept neat and tidy.
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thank you for this update, very much. This plugin is great for us, other moodlers (not from Colleges or Universities). I have just one question-request, if you could add Custom profile fields (Site administration>Users>Accounts>User profile fields) to this "Group by" dropdown, plugin will be 1000% more powerful (we don't have departments and Institution and ...). Administrator can add Custom profile field to account create form, and now that client (student) will be in that group in course. Thanks again that you jump in with this update.
sorry, I admit it was my bad. Only thing that I can say in my defense is that find release notes is not easy, it should be by Versions and before Stats.
And I feel the need to explain to future users, custom profile field is here called "User info field" (by table name from database), and that is the same field you created using "Site administration>Users>Accounts>User profile fields" from admin menu, that most of us know as "Custom profile field".
Then custom profile field will get attention of the people who are using search, and it will give immediate explanation (association) with "User info field".
I agree that « custom profile field » is more understandable for users so I created https://github.com/emmarichardson/local_autogroup/issues/2 where i explain the problem.
I’ll try to work on it when I’ll have free time.
This is a great plugin! I'm currently using it in Totara to auto create groups in courses members of audiences who are enrolled in programs and not directly to courses, which is a common request. Do you have plans to update the plugin for multiple job assignments in Totara (Totara 9 and onwards)? It would be really great to be able to use this with positions!
Thanks,
Erin