Being able to effectively coordinate activities so that groups and cohorts work well together will enable you to ensure that there are ideal conditions for learning, especially the collaborative learning that is so vital to online learning. Groups and cohorts can be one of the strongest elements in your course, and they can be absolutely critical in motivating students and keeping them engaged.

This chapter shows you how to use groups to separate students in a course into teams. You will also learn how to use cohorts to mass enroll students into courses. We will discuss how to use the features of Moodle to make managing enrollments and groups very efficient and pleasant.