 How can I add groups to my courses? First, let's look at two Moodle terms for groups of users. A cohort is a group of users created by the admin and available throughout the site or a category. You can enroll a cohort into a course. When users are added to or removed from a cohort, they will appear or disappear in the course where they're enrolled. A group, as Moodle uses the term, only exists within a single course. A course can have several groups and the teacher can create these manually or the admin can upload them with a file. This video looks at groups in courses. If you need to create cohorts, watch our video on adding groups of users to your Moodle site. Groups can be added to courses either by the administrator with the text csv file upload or by the course teacher within the course. Let's look at both methods. File upload by the admin. If you're the admin, you can create groups in a course and enroll students in them at the same time by including the relevant columns or fields in your file. First, we need to prepare our file offline. We can either use a simple text editor such as Notepad or Geddit or use a spreadsheet program such as Excel or LibreOfficeCalc. If you can use a simple text editor, it's better because sometimes saving in Excel can cause problems. Here's an example of a text file which shows the user name, course name and groups. You need the short name of the course and if the group has not been created in the course, it will be created when the file is uploaded. Our users already exist on the system. We make sure the file is saved as a csv file and then upload it from site administration, users, upload users. Here we preview the file, can check certain settings, then when we upload it, the groups are created and the students enrolled into them. Manual group creation in a course. As admin or the course teacher, access the course and from course navigation, click Participants and then from the drop-down, select Groups. Click the Create Groups button. If you are interested in the other two options, Auto Create and Import, find out more in the documentation. Here we must give the group a name but other settings are optional. If we want learners to self-enroll, we can add an Enrollment key and we can also decide who can see the members of the group and not. We can enable group messaging and add a picture to identify the group and then we save the changes. Then to manually add learners, we select them from the box on the right and move them into the box on the left. We can go back to the groups and repeat the process to add more groups and here the participants list shows who is in which group. To summarise, Moodle Groups uses in two ways, site or category-wide cohorts and course groups. Groups can be created and uploaded into courses by the site admin. Groups can be manually created in courses.