understanding groups and groupings for moodle 1.9

Understanding Understanding

Groups and GroupingsGroups and Groupings

By Maryel MendiolaBy Maryel Mendiola

There is a Course with 10 participants (teachers included) and they are going to work in groups.

The groups will be:

• Odd Numbers • Even Numbers• Consonants • Vowels

And need to be grouping into:

1.1. Numbers groupingNumbers grouping

3.3. Letters groupingLetters grouping

We need groups with 2 persons each one.

Let's do it !!!Let's do it !!!

First StepsFirst Steps

First of all, we need to create Groups.

Administration Block Groups

There are 2 ways:

1) Create group one by one

2) Auto-create groupsWe are going to create the groups with

second choice

Specify : if we would like to create ‘N’ number of Groups or have each group contain ‘N’ number of students, i.e. We want 2 members in each Group or we want 5 Groups.

Select members from role: This option is for select who is going to be at Groups, within all roles defined in it.

All?, students? Teachers? Other role?

The How is set in Specify,

How much (a Number) is set in Group/Member count

If we select Members per group the Prevent last small group will allocate additional members to an existing group rather than create a new group with fewer members than ‘N’

Allocate members: with this option we choose the method that Moodle is going to create Groups:

•Randomly

•Alphabetically by first name, last name

•Alphabetically by last name, first name

•Alphabetically by ID number

Naming scheme: with these options, we are defining naming scheme by Letter or Number e.g.

Group @ {Group A, Group B, Group C … Group Z}

Group # {Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 … Group n}

Create in grouping

Grouping name

allows us to create a new grouping and allocate the groups to be created to it.

In Auto create groups we have an awesome button:

Preview Preview

Indeed, the PreviewPreview button let us see how could be created our groups. If we are not satisfy, we can change settings again and again and see previews before we Submit the final settings

Maybe you should practice with all options and view what happen

When we submit the chosen settings, we have the result as this graphic

Have you noticed the 3 tabs?

One for the list of our Groups, other for the list of our Groupings, and the last one, Overview, where we can see together and organized Groups and Grouping . . . (we shall see forward)

We are clearly which groups we need. So next step is Edit each group changing the name and assign graphics individually

And now, what?

To edit each group, we have to:

• Select a group (in this example we selected Group A )

• choice ‘Edit group settings’

• Change group name to one of our first list

• Odd Numbers • Even

Numbers• Consonants

• Vowels

And another one for

• Teachers

At this point, we should have ready all graphics we’re going to use:

35 X 35 px for Group logo (that it’s showed at Forums);

134 X 46 px for Group List;

220 X 37 px for Grouping logo.

Although this is optional, it is good to have always a good looking work :p

Editing a GroupEditing a Group

New Name

Graphic GroupThis is Group description that everybody can see when need info about some Group

Group LogoThis logo is shown bellow the picture profile person at Forums

Look our 5 groups editedLook our 5 groups edited..

We set Groups by choose Auto-create groups way.

Then we edit each one changing name

we passed

from this

To this

Editing the Groups

Grouping Time !!!Grouping Time !!!

GroupingGroupingLetters

GroupVowels

GroupConsonants

GroupingGroupingNumbers

GroupOdd Numbers

GroupEven Numbers

Grouping SchemeGrouping Schemeof

Y(our) Course

GroupTeachers

Without Grouping

OK, we already have our 5 Groups created and edited and a Grouping Scheme. So, next step is begin to grouping (a piece of cake! )

To create group: Go to Groups through

Administration Block Administration Block Groups Groups

This time you must select ‘Groupings Tab’

Click on ‘Create grouping’ button

This is setting page to create Groupings.

It looks like Resources and Activities, has:

A text line for Name, and

a box text with editor to write Grouping description

Now we need to Add Groups to Grouping

Click on groups icon to enter

Numbers has no Groups, let’s add them

Let’s see Overview Tab

Here it is!!! ;D

The two Groupings with its respective groups

and a Group (Teachers) without Grouping

“One metaphor that has worked well in training is this: At the Olympics, there are many sports—gymnastics, swimming, track—and many countries.

In this way, there are two levels of being categorized as an Olympian: by your sport, and by your nationality.

To be on the United States Olympic Team, you must first be a swimmer, a gymnast, a runner, etc.; you cannot be on the US Team without first being an athlete in a certain sport.

Your sport is your group. Your country is your grouping.

You must belong to a group before joining a groupingYou must belong to a group before joining a grouping.

Does this make sense?”

Before we see how to assign some activities to our Groupings, please read this metaphor that explain the logic of Groups and Groupings.

It was taken from http://docs.moodle.org/en/Groupingshttp://docs.moodle.org/en/Groupings

Now is Time to get ready for assign activities to Groupings

1) We need to Set the Default Grouping

2) Assigning an activities to Groupings

To set the default Grouping, go to course settings In the Groups section select the default grouping

We set default Grouping because in activities must be show a Grouping by default, we can change it or leave it so.

Every time we add an activity, we must edit some settings. The edit activity page has in the Common module settings:

• Grouping (there appear the default grouping)

• Available for group members only

And everything is ready to add an activity and choice which grouping is going to do it.

The Common module settings always are going to have this 2 options: Grouping and Available for group members only.

As you see, these are the Advanced options, you can Hide or Show them

Finally we can check how many activities has a Grouping in

Administration block Groups Grouping Tab

Let’s Keep Moodle-ing

That's all for now. I will see you at next tutorial

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