Groups
A group is a named label you put on members — Year 9, Coaches, Regional team 2026. It carries no list of its own: membership is a property of the member, and the group is just the name they're tagged with. Groups grant no permissions and change nothing about what a member can do.
Groups live under Members → Groups. Viewing them needs permission to read members; creating, editing and deleting them needs permission to change members.
What a group is made of
A group has a Name and a Description, and that's all. Add group asks for both, Edit changes them, and clicking a row opens the members list filtered to that group — which is the closest thing there is to "the group's members".
Groups exist only in the space they were created in. Groups can also decorate their members on the public site with an icon, a badge and a colour; when several of a member's groups define decorations, the last one wins. Those fields aren't exposed in the console.
Putting members in a group
Group membership is assigned per member, from the member's Account card → Groups. The row lists the member's groups as chips; click any chip, or the Add group chip when there are none, to open the group editor.
A member can belong to at most 10 groups. That's a fixed platform limit, and a change that would take them past it is rejected. A group itself has no size limit.
Where groups are used
Used by | Behaviour |
|---|---|
Assigning participants from a group copies the members it holds at that moment, and never updates them again. | |
A class built on a group keeps enrolling members as they join the group later. | |
Importing a group adds its current members as recipients. Later joiners are not added. | |
Members list, gradebook, course students | A filter. |
A member's group membership is available as a rule condition. |
The distinction in the first three rows is the one that catches people out. A course class stays in step with its group; a contest's participant list and a newsletter's recipient list are snapshots taken when you imported the group. Add someone to the group the day before a contest and you have to add them to the contest as well.
Deleting a group
Deleting removes the group and every member's membership of it. The members themselves stay in the space, untouched.
Two things follow the group out: course classes built on it are deleted, and so are the assignments belonging to those classes. Contest participants copied from the group earlier stay where they are, because they were copied rather than linked.
Groups and teams
A group is a label for filtering and bulk operations. A team is a member in its own right — it registers for contests, submits and appears on the scoreboard as one entity. If you want ten people to compete as one, you want a team; if you want to find those ten people quickly, you want a group.
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