In previous chapters you learned how to create users; now let's cover how you add users to groups.
- Log in to your course as a teacher or administrator.
- From the Settings block, select Course administration, select Users, and then select Groups.
- From the Groups page, select the group you want to add users to. For this example, let's select the Safety L1 group we created previously.
- Next click on the Add/remove users button located on the bottom right. You will now be on the Add/remove users: Safety L1 page. See the following screenshot:
- On the right side of the page you will see a list of Potential users you can add to the group. This lists participants in the course who are not already assigned to the group.
- To add a user, select the user you want to add from the list of Potential members and click the Add button. The user you just added should now appear in the left Group members column.
- You can search for users in either column from the Search box below each respective column. This comes in handy when you have a large number of users.
Note
In the Potential members column, you will see a number in parentheses next to the username. This is the number of groups the user is already a member of in the course. If you click on a user who is already a member of a group, the groups that they belong to will appear on the far right under Selected user's membership.
You have just restricted access to training activities based on the level of training a user needs. When an employee, who only needs basic safety training, logs into your course, they will only see the basic safety training lesson. Likewise, when an employee who needs all three levels of training logs into the course, they will see all three safety training lessons. With groups and groupings you have filtered access to course activities or resources based on the needs of the employee, and with the addition of an enrolment key you could also automate enrolment into groups.
In the beginning of this section, we briefly mentioned the enrolment key when creating groups. This is a useful tool if you want users to self enrol in a course. You create a group enrolment key and when it is time for the user to take the required training, give them the enrolment key and then they can self enrol in the course. It saves you from having to do it for them!
Try adding an enrolment key to one of the groups you created in the beginning of this section.