Introduction
Groupings are a helpful tool if your students will be members of multiple groups throughout the semester.
A Group is a collection of students. A Grouping is a collection of groups.
Pretend we're teaching a course that has two discussion forums. We've put our students into groups so they can only see and respond to their fellow group members in each forum. We also want our students to change groups between the first and second forum. This means:
- We have two sets of groups (one set for each forum).
- Each student will be a member of two different groups.
We need a way to distinguish which groups should be used for the first forum, and which groups should be used for the second. A Grouping allows us to create a collection of groups. In this example, we'd have a grouping for our first forum, and a second grouping for our second forum. When we set up our forums, we can now specify which collection of groups to use, and which to ignore.
- Creating a grouping
- Managing groupings
- Adding groups to a grouping
- Removing groups from a grouping
- Course overview of groups and groupings
Creating and managing groupings
1. Open the Participants page in your course.
2. Open the Enrolled users dropdown menu, and select Groupings.
3. Click the Create grouping button.
4. Enter the Grouping name and (optional) Grouping description, then click the Save changes button.
5. When you have completed managing groups in your grouping, click the Back to groupings button.
The Grouping will display in the table on the Groupings page. 
- Click the Gear icon on the far right to edit the Grouping (name, description).
- Click the Trash icon to delete the Grouping. This will not delete the groups associated with it.
- Click the Profile icon to specify the Groups to be included in the Grouping (next step). It is worth noting that adding groups to a grouping is analogous to adding users to a group. If you can do one, you can do the other.
1. On the Groupings page, click the Profile icon for that grouping.
The alt text for this icon is "Show groups in grouping".
2. Click to select a group listed under Potential members, then click ◀ Add to move the group to the Existing members of the grouping.
You can select multiple users by holding down the Control or Command keys while clicking user names. You can also use the Command+A or Control+A keyboard shortcuts to select all users in a list. 
The Overview page displays the following information:
- Group memberships
- Grouping memberships
- A list of users who are not in a group
- Groups that are not in a grouping
You can also download your group and grouping memberships as an .xlsx or .csv file.
To access the groups and groupings Overview page from the Participants page, open the Enrolled users dropdown menu and select "Overview".
