Moodle Group Manager
Go to 'Settings' - 'Course Administration' - 'Users' - 'Groups':
Create group
Manually create separate groups, add students individually
Auto-create groups
Creates a specified number of groups/members per group. You can add members via random selection or individually.
Adding group members manually:
Click on the group, then on
Add/remove users
See images below for 'how to add users to a group'
If you select a group member who is already in another group you can see this in a column on the left (new in Moodle 2.8)
Using 'Grouping' for Seminar Discussion Boards
1. Set up seminar groups by adding students manually
2. Then add all seminar groups into one grouping = AllSeminar (example)
Set up for discussion is:
Group mode: separate groups
Grouping: AllSeminar