Having students post to forums in groups is a common and an excellent method of promoting collaboration in small groups, particularly when socially distanced or remotely learning.

1. To utilize group forums, first ensure you have enabled group mode for your course.
2. Then you’ll want to create your desired groups. See Manual or Automatic Group settings
   • Students can belong to multiple groups (if you plan to recycle groups, ensure you aren’t relying on previous group access to older forum threads or conducting grading based on prior groups before removing students from existing groups and replacing them with new students)
3. Create your forum with desired settings.

To Set Group Mode

1. 1. Expand the Common Module Settings Toggle.
   2. From the Group Mode drop down, choose either Separate Groups or Visible Groups.

Separate groups  – only students in that group can view and post to that forum.

Visible groups – students from each group can view posts in other groups but can only post within their own group’s forum.

3. Click Save and Return to Course.

 When students enter the forum, their default group will be displayed at the top and they will be able to post and view posts by other members of their own group (Separate group mode) or toggle to other visible groups for view only mode.