Create and manage groups

Updated 19 Feb 2024

Use the Manage Groups page to create groups of students and manage assignments. After you create groups, you can associate students with the group. Students will not know that they are members of groups; groups are simply an instructor convenience for managing assignments.

You can associate a student to one or more groups. When you add a student to a group the student is able to view all of the material that was ever assigned or made available to that group. If you remove a student from a group, the student can no longer view new material that you assign or make available to that specific group; they can continue to see the material previously assigned to the group.

Teaching assistants must have permission to create groups. Use the Preferences > Permissions page to control which functionality is available to teaching assistants. (MyLab Languages only)

Create groups

  1. Click Gradebook > Manage Groups or Grades > Reports and Manage Groups > Manage Groups.
  2. Click Create Group.
  3. Enter a group Name. The name must be unique for the course.
  4. Type a group Description.
  5. Click Save and Close.

The new group appears in the Groups list.

Edit or delete groups

  1. From the group's options menu, select Edit.
  2. Make appropriate changes to the group Name and Description.
  3. Click Save and Close.
  1. To delete a single group, from the group's options menu, select Delete.

    - or-

    To delete one or more groups at once, go to the Groups list, select the groups to delete, and then click Remove.

  2. Click OK to confirm you want to delete the groups.

Add students to groups

The material assigned to the group will be available to all students in the group. Creating groups lets you create assignments for different members of the class.

  1. From the Roster list on the left, select the students you want to add.
  2. From the Groups list on the right, click to open the group in which you want to add the students or select Open from the group's options menu.
  3. Click Add.

    The selected students are added to the group.

Remove students from groups

You can remove students from a group at any time. If you remove students from a group, those students cannot view any new material that you assign or make available to that specific group. However, they continue to see materials previously assigned to the group. If students submit an activity that was assigned to the group, and you remove the students from the group, the removed students can still view their submissions. 

  1. Click to open the group in which you want to remove students or select Open from the group's options menu.
  2. Select the students you want to remove and then click Remove.
  3. Click OK to confirm you want to remove the students.