Teaching Online at UTAS

What does it do?

The Groups tool allows you to create and manage groups of students. You can then set up Release Conditions to release items in MyLO to students in a particular groups or groups.

Useful terminology

Groups are organised into Categories. A group must be assigned to a Category.

By default, MyLO already provides you with some groups, including:

• Mode Groups
  • Default Group Study Mode External – A group of students enrolled as Distance students
  • Default Group Study Mode Internal – A group of students enrolled as Face to Face students
• Campus Groups
  • Default Group Campus Hobart – Includes students enrolled to study on the Hobart campus AND all distance (External) students
  • Default Group Campus Launceston – Includes students enrolled to study face to face on the Launceston campus
  • Default Group Campus Cradle Coast – Includes students enrolled to study face to face on the Cradle Coast (Burnie) campus

Helpful resources and instructions

• An introduction to the Groups tool.
• Send an email to the members of a Group.
• Create groups with randomly allocated members.
  NOTE: MyLO cannot create groups from groups. For example, you can’t create groups with randomly allocated members from the Default Group Study Mode External group.  If you only want to create groups for one cohort of students, you will need to create empty groups for manual enrolment.
• Create self-enrolment groups.
  Great for tutorial or workshop sign up! Once created, students can enrol themselves in these groups. You can set a maximum capacity, so only a certain number of students can enrol. You may also wish to edit the group names to match tutorial dates and times. NOTE: You can not restrict access to these group sign-up based on membership of another group.
• Create empty groups for manual enrolment.
  Ideal for the creation of groups within a specific cohort, or groups that you have created based on skill sets, personality matches and so forth.
• Editing group names and enrolling/removing students from groups.
• Advanced search options in the Groups tool.