You can tailor access to activities and resources by Groups or Groupings of students using Restrict access settings. For example, you may have some students get early access to an activity or resource, or some students who are allowed an extended deadline.

• You are a teacher in a course where you have several classes and you want to filter your activities and gradebook so you only see one class at a time.
• You are a teacher sharing a course with other teachers and you want to filter your activities and gradebook so you don’t see the students from your colleagues’ classes.
• You want to allocate a particular activity, resource or topic section to just one class or set of users and you don’t want others to see it.

What is a grouping?

A grouping is a collection of groups within a course. Using groupings allows you to direct tasks at one or more groups in your course, so that they can work together on the tasks.

1. Click the 'Create group' button in Administration > Course administration > Users > Groups (if using the Classic theme) or from the navigation drawer "Participants" and then clicking the gear menu on the right and "Groups" (if using the Boost theme)
2. Add a group name and optional description (displayed above the list of group members on the participants page), enrolment key and picture (displayed on the participants page and next to forum posts)
3. Tick the box Enable group messaging if you wish to enage in group conversations. You will then be able to send group messages from the messaging drawer. See Messaging for more information.
4. Click the 'Save changes' button
5. Select the group to which you want to add participants, then click the 'Add/remove users button
6. In the "Potential members" list, select the users you want to add to the group. Multiple users may be selected using the Crtl key.
7. Click the Add button to add the users to the group.

See more on this Moodle link(Groups )

Create groupings

To add a new grouping, select the Groupings option in the Participants drop-down inside a course and select Create grouping.

Add a Grouping name and, optionally, a Grouping ID number to and Grouping description. The optional grouping ID number may be added for matching the grouping against external systems or when when importing groups into groupings. Grouping ID numbers are not displayed anywhere on the site. Within a course, all grouping ID numbers must be unique.

See more on this Moodle link( Groupings )

To be able to restrict an activity, resource or course topic to a group, Restrict access must be enabled. This will result in a 'Restrict access' section in the activity, resource or topic settings and a group restriction can then be added.

To be able to restrict an activity, resource or course topic to a grouping, Restrict access must be enabled. This will result in a 'Restrict access' section in the activity, resource or topic settings and a grouping restriction can then be added.

Ensure that the Restriction by grouping option is enabled in the Restrict access settings; otherwise the Grouping button is not shown in your list of available restrictions.

• Upload users - for importing users into groups
• Enrolment key
• Autogroup additionalplugin - A local plugin which automatically assigns enrolled users on a course into groups dependent 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.
• Importing users into groupings via CSV
• Groupings FAQ