User Groups

Overview

• You can create and add a user to groups
• For students who are learning a certain subject
• For teachers to share information
• Most useful with Discussions as you can add user groups to certain

If you want to know about Creating a Discussion or Understanding the Community/ Messaging Section, please click the links!

 What is Covered

• Finding the User Groups List page
• Navigating the User Groups List Page
• Creating a User Group
• Linking User Groups
• Useful Links

Finding the User Groups List Page

Go to Menu--->Community/ Messaging---> User Groups

Navigating the User Groups List page

1. Name
2. Discussions- How many discussions are linked to the user group
3. Enrolled- How many of the linked users are enrolled in a course
4. Requested- Users that have requested access to the user group
5. Denied- how many users were denied access to the user group
6. Enabled- If the user group is allowed to register or not. (if registration is disabled there will be no checkmark)
7. Created- When the user group was created
8. Updated- When it was last updated
9. ID- Its unique creation ID
10. Owner- Who created the user group

Creating a New User Group

• In the top right-hand corner select the ADD NEW button
• Fill in the necessary information
  • Name
  • Description
  • User Enrollment Strategy
    • Self-Enroll
    • Request enrollment and must be approved by an admin
    • no self-enrollment and can only be added by an admin
  • Disabled from Registration
    • Can the users register or not?
  • SAVE

Linking Users and Discussions to User Groups

• Link Users
  • GO to the Users tab 
  • In the right-hand corner select the LINK TO button.
  • Press the square plus button to add a user to the user group.
• Link Discussion
  • In the discussions tab, select the square plus button on the right-hand side of the NOT LINKED box to link a discussion.

You now know how to create a User Group. To learn about creating a discussion please view our other tutorials.