Most activities and resources are intended to be accessible to all enrolled members of a course. Sometimes, however, there is reason to want to limit access to a subset of those members. For example, a teaching assistant may wish to set up individual discussion forums for each section she teaches or for a set of groups (a grouping) of students working together on a project. CCLE allows instructors to create groups of students within a CCLE site. These groups can be used for organization purposes and to limit access to select activities and resources.
Creation of groups
Scroll down the administration block along the left side of a CCLE course page and click Admin panel. A new screen will appear.
On this new screen, select “Groups”under “Users & groups.” A new screen will appear.
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Repeat these steps for any other group that needs to be created.
Groupings and Grouping Creation
Sometimes, multiple groups are closely related. It is possible to create a collection of Groups called a Grouping. Groupings allow instructors to more easily grant multiple groups access to activities and resources on the course site. If the instructor adds related Groups to a single Grouping, they can grant access based on that Grouping instead of granting access individually to each Group.
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Click Back to groupings to return to the “Groupings” page.
Repeat these steps for each desired Grouping.
Restricting Access to a Group or Grouping
Create the activity or resource that will have restricted access, if needed.
With Editing Mode turned on, click on “Edit” next to the item and select “Edit settings.” A new screen will appear.
Navigate to the “Restrict Access”section.
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(Forums only) Expand the “Common module settings” subheading and select the desired grouping from the “Grouping” drop-down menu.
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Further Comments
Course sites with official sections (not collaboration sites) should come with groups for sections premade. This will allow for easy grouping of students into section-restricted forums. See below for an example.
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