Allow student to choose own group

Lecturer Guides, Users & Groups
March 8, 2024

Part 1 Create the groups

Click Groups from the "Enrolled Users" drop-down in the "Course administration" menu.

Click Auto-create groups.

Part 2 Edit group settings

In the "Naming scheme" section, set the naming convention for your groups. You can include any text. You must include either an @ or # wildcard to use either letters or numbers.
In the "Auto create based on" section, you can either have Moodle arrange groups with a specified number of students per group or by a total number of groups in the course.
In the "Group/member count" section, you can set the number of students per group or the total number of groups (depending on what you chose for the "Auto create based on" section).

Under the Group Member section, find Allocate members option and select No allocation. This is to let the system to create empty groups.
Check the option Prevent last small group so that the system will not create a group with a small number of students. This option will allow the remaining students to enter any maximum group.
Click Submit button to save the progress.
Once submitted, you will see the created groups with empty student as below:

Part 3 Create Groupings

Next, you need to create a Groupings - to group all these created groups for system to identify which groups are related for self-selection activity.
To do so, select Groupings from the dropdown and click on the Create grouping button.

Enter the grouping name and the descriptions. Click Save changes button once done.

The created Grouping will be listed. Click on the icon below to select the groups that will be tagged to the grouping.

The created Grouping will be listed. Click on the icon below to select the groups that will be tagged to the grouping.

Select all new created groups and click Add button to tag the groups under this selected Grouping.

Done. Kindly proceed to Part 4 -create the Group self-selection activity.

Part 4 Create the Group Choice activity

On the top menu, click on the Course menu to go back to course page.
Scroll to your latest section and click on Add an activity or resource. Choose Group choice activity.

Under Miscellaneous settings:
- Check Allow enrolment to multiple groups if you want to enable students to be part of more than one group.
- Select how you want to Publish results for group choice. You can choose not to publish any results by selecting the Do not publish any results option from the drop-down menu, or choose to Show Results at different stages of the group choice.
- The Privacy of Results can be specified if you choose to publish results. This allows you to publish anonymous results as well as results with details of the students.
- Select Yes from Allow choice to be updated if you would like to allow students to update their choice after it has been made. Otherwise select No .
- Select Yes from Show column for unanswered option if you would like to show a list of students who have not yet chosen a group. Otherwise select No .
- If the Limit the number of responses allowed option is Disabled then any number of participants can select each of the group options.
- If you wish to limit the number of people who can join a group, select Enable . To restrict all groups to the same number of participants, enter the number of people in the General limitation field and select Apply to all groups .

Under Groups, specify which groups participants can choose to be allocated to. The list on the left displays all Available Groups and groupings. To add one or more groups, select these from the Available Groups list and select Add Group. The selected group(s) will display on the Selected Groups list on the right.

- If a limit for the number of students in each group has been set (under Miscellaneous settings ), the limit will be displayed between brackets next to the group under Selected Groups .

To restrict the time period students are able to enrol themselves into groups check the box alongside Restrict answering to this time period and adjust the Open from and Until period.

Select Save and display to review the activity.

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Allow student to choose own group

Part 1

Create the groups

Click Groups from the "Enrolled Users" drop-down in the "Course administration" menu.

Click Auto-create groups.

Part 2

Edit group settings

In the "Naming scheme" section, set the naming convention for your groups. You can include any text. You must include either an @ or # wildcard to use either letters or numbers.

In the "Auto create based on" section, you can either have Moodle arrange groups with a specified number of students per group or by a total number of groups in the course.

In the "Group/member count" section, you can set the number of students per group or the total number of groups (depending on what you chose for the "Auto create based on" section).

Under the Group Member section, find Allocate members option and select No allocation. This is to let the system to create empty groups.

Check the option Prevent last small group so that the system will not create a group with a small number of students. This option will allow the remaining students to enter any maximum group.

Click Submit button to save the progress.

Once submitted, you will see the created groups with empty student as below:

Part 3

Create Groupings

Next, you need to create a Groupings - to group all these created groups for system to identify which groups are related for self-selection activity.

To do so, select Groupings from the dropdown and click on the Create grouping button.

Enter the grouping name and the descriptions. Click Save changes button once done.

The created Grouping will be listed. Click on the icon below to select the groups that will be tagged to the grouping.

The created Grouping will be listed. Click on the icon below to select the groups that will be tagged to the grouping.

Select all new created groups and click Add button to tag the groups under this selected Grouping.

Done. Kindly proceed to Part 4 -create the Group self-selection activity.

Part 4

Create the Group Choice activity

On the top menu, click on the Course menu to go back to course page.

Scroll to your latest section and click on Add an activity or resource. Choose Group choice activity.

Under Miscellaneous settings:

To restrict the time period students are able to enrol themselves into groups check the box alongside Restrict answering to this time period and adjust the Open from and Until period.

Select Save and display to review the activity.