Creating Groups in Sakai

You can use Groups in Sakai to restrict access to specified folders in Resources. You can also set permissions on folders so that members of the group have exactly the permissions you want them to have on files in the folder. For more information about setting permissions on folders in Resources, please see this tutorial. For more information on restricting folder access to one or more groups, see this tutorial.

Before you can use groups for folder access, you need to create your groups in each course. This tutorial will show you how to do that.

Log in to your Sakai course and click Site Editor. Click Manage Groups.

Click New to create a new group.

Give your new group a title and an optional description. Hint: If you include the names of the members of the group in either the title or the description then you will be able to see who is in the group from the Resources area.

Select each course member you would like in this group and click Add to group> When your Group Member list is the way you want it, click Update.

You can change anything about a group - Title, description or membership - at any time. Go to Manage Groups and click the Revise link next to the group you want to change. Make your changes and click Update.

You can remove a group from the Manage Groups page by checking the Remove box next to the right of the group information and clicking Remove Checked.

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