Moodle Educators – Effectively manage your groups using the Auto Group plugin

Moodle LMS allows multiple ways to increase student collaboration and participation. One of the most efficient & popular ways for improving the student collaboration is to use Groups in Moodle. The Moodle groups allows educators to group course participants together to work on an activity like an assignment.

However, creating groups in Moodle can be tedious if you need the groups to be based on user information. It will eat a lot of your time if you need to update the groups when any student leaves the class. Now, you can use the Auto Group plugin to easily manage your groups.

Here is a screencast showing how to setup Moodle groups:

The Auto Group Moodle plugin automatically assigns enrolled users on a course into groups dependent upon information within their user profile. You can also make use of the custom profile fields. This plugin will create, update, and delete groups automatically to match the users on your course. All behaviour is event-driven and so will occur within page loads.

You can download the latest version of the Auto Group plugin from the official Moodle plugins repository here. In case you are new to Moodle, please follow this guide to understand how to install a Moodle plugin.

The plugin seems to be working quite beautifully and can be extremely helpful to save your time. You will not need to manage your groups manually anymore once you start using this plugin.

What are the other useful Moodle plugins you are using to save your time? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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