Group Choice
Use the Group Choice activity to allow students to sign up to groups through Moodle. This is very useful if you offer several tutorial options in a paper, as it allows students to see which dates and times are available, and make their own selection.
Before adding Group choice to your paper, create your groups.
Note: To avoid student confusion, when you create tutorial groups ensure that you include each tutorial's time and location (and flag any remote/online tutorials) in the Group name.
- In the Introduction section or relevant week/topic of your Moodle paper, select Add an activity or resource.
- Under Activities, select Group Choice, then select Add.
- In the Group choice name field, type Sign up for your tutorial. Add a description if you wish.
- To set a maximum size for each group, expand Miscellaneous settings.
Next to Limit the number of responses allowed, change Limit the number of responses allowed to Enable using the drop-down menu. This displays a General limitation box.
Then:
A. If you want all groups to have the same number of members, enter a General limitation number and select Apply to all groups
or
B. Leave this box blank and see step 7 below to enter or edit individual group limits.
- Under Groups, select each of your tutorial groups and then select Add Group.
- If you have elected to Limit the number of responses allowed, but haven't selected a General limitation (see step 5), a box will appear to the right of Selected Groups. Enter or edit a Limit for your group here.
- Once the maximum number is reached, students will no longer be able to self-select into a group, but the teacher/lecturer can still add individual students to any group.
- If you limit the number of responses but do not enter a maximum number for each group, the limit will remain at zero and those tutorials will appear to students to be full.
- Select Save and return to paper.
Your tutorial sign up link will display in your paper.

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