Guide to groups

Overview

Groups are a powerful way to connect, collaborate, share materials, learn best practices, and more with others in your school and beyond. Depending on your organization's settings, educators, parents, and students can create or join groups.

To review available groups, select Groups. Then, select My Groups. Groups are categorized in three ways.

My Groups - Groups you have created or joined.
School Groups - Groups created by your school.
Public Groups - Groups created by Schoology based on areas of study and teaching techniques.

Create a group

Select Groups.
Select My Groups.
Click Create Group.
Enter the group information.
Click Create. You are now the group admin, noted with a shield icon.

Join a group

Select Groups.
Select My Groups.
Optionally:
- From My Groups or School Groups, click Join Group. Enter the Access Code and then click Join. If you don't have an access code, contact the group administrator.
- From Public Groups, click Join Group or Request to Join for a selected group.

After joining a group, you will receive group updates, posts, comments, and event notifications. To learn more about managing your notifications, review the Personal Account: Notifications page.

Manage groups

Reorder My Groups

Select Groups.
Select My Groups.
Click Reorder Groups.
Click and drag the groups to reorder them. A maximum of 12 groups can be displayed on the page.
Click close (X icon). Your changes are applied to the My Groups list. Changes are not applied to the Groups page.

Add members

Navigate to a group for which you are the group admin. Locate and distribute the Group Access Code to those who want to join.

Alternatively, you can manually approve those using the access code before they can join the group. From the group, select Members, locate the Group Access Code, and select Require Approval.

Enterprise users can add members directly to a group.

Navigate to the group and select Members.
Select the users to invite.
Optionally, select Add members without an invite.
Click Add Members.

Basic student accounts and basic parent accounts cannot join enterprise groups. However, instructors with basic accounts can join via a Group Access Code.

Archive a group

Select Groups.
Select My Groups.
Select the gear icon for the group and choose Archive from the list.
Click Submit. Group enrollment and content will remain, Group administrators can continue to access the group from the Archived area of Group Listing.

Members can continue to participate in an archived group if the View Archived Groups permission is enabled. Contact your system administrator for more information.

Restore an archived group

Select Groups.
Select My Groups.
Select the gear icon for the group and choose Restore from the list.
Click Submit. Members will be able to access and participate in the group.

Delete a group

Select Groups.
Select My Groups.
Select the gear icon for the group and choose Delete from the list.

Restore a deleted group

Select Groups.
Select My Groups.
Click Deleted Groups.
Select the group to restore.
Click Restore and click Restore again.

Group features

To use a group feature, navigate to a group and select Updates, Discussions, Albums, or Resources. Post a message or click the add option and follow the prompts.

Feature overview

Feature	Description	Notes
Updates	Post brief messages to a group.	Group admins and members can post and comment on updates, depending on permissions.
Polls	Receive live feedback as members vote.	Create a poll when adding an update.
Discussions	Engage members in interests outside or in conjunction with the classroom.	Add a maximum of 5000 discussions to a group. Group admins and members can create discussions, depending on permissions.
Albums	Share and comment on photos and media files.	Add a maximum of 5000 albums to a group. When creating an album: Click Allow Comments so members can add comments to uploaded photos and media. Click Allow Students to Add Media so members can upload photos and media to the album. Members will also be able to edit or delete the content they have uploaded.
Resources	Share files and links that pertain to members' interests.	Add a maximum of 5000 materials to a group. Group admins and members can create resources, depending on permissions.

Manage feature permissions

Navigate to a group you administer.
From Group Options, select Edit Privacy/Group Settings from the list.
From Other Settings, click All Admins or Group Members to update the permission for the selected feature.
Click Save Changes.