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Learn Tutorial - Set Group Mode

This document provides instructions for setting the group mode in Learn at both the activity and course level. At the activity level, the group mode can be set to visible, separate, or no groups for individual activities like forums or wikis. At the course level, the default group mode for all activities can be set by selecting the "Groups" option in the course settings. Force group mode can be turned on to apply the course-level setting to all activities, or turned off to set the mode individually for each activity.

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Learn Tutorial - Set Group Mode

This document provides instructions for setting the group mode in Learn at both the activity and course level. At the activity level, the group mode can be set to visible, separate, or no groups for individual activities like forums or wikis. At the course level, the default group mode for all activities can be set by selecting the "Groups" option in the course settings. Force group mode can be turned on to apply the course-level setting to all activities, or turned off to set the mode individually for each activity.

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TUTORIAL

Learn (ver. 2.7)


How to set group mode


To control whether groups you have created work separately or are visible to each other, you
need to set the group mode.
You can set the group mode at two levels:
Activity level
Course level

How to set group mode at activity level



You can set the group mode for an individual activity to be to visible or separate. E.g. for a forum,
a wiki or an assignment.
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Select course module


Select Add activity or resource
Select e.g. Forum
Select the option Common module settings
Select the option Group mode and set a mode.


There are three group modes:
No groups
There are no sub groups, everyone is part of one big community
Separate groups
Each group can only see their own group, others are invisible.
Only students in the same group can see and participate in discussions within a particular
forum.
Visible groups
Each group only participates in own groups discussion, but can see other groups discussions.
(The other groups' work is read-only)

Using groups with discussion forums allows teachers to restrict interaction between students.
With visible groups, students can see which other groups are doing the same activities as they are;
with separate groups, they do not know which other groups are doing the same activities.


How to set group mode at course level


The group mode defined at the course level is the default mode for all activities defined within
that course.
1. Click the Edit settings button in Administration > Course administration > Edit settings
2. Select the option Groups on the page Edit course settings (list at bottom of page)


If you set Force group mode to Yes, group mode is applied to every activity in the course. This
overrides any settings for individual activities. And if you set Group mode to e.g. Separate
groups, this will be default mode for all activities.
If you only want some activities to be set to group mode, you should set Force group mode to
No and then set specific activities to group mode at activity level as described above.

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