In the following screenshot, the student is viewing the Groups page. Note that there are two groups displayed—Field Trip to Aquarium and Sandwalkers.
The instructor made a student a member of Sandwalkers. This student has the option to enroll herself in the Field Trip group as well.
Every group automatically gets its own course tools; for example, the Sandwalkers group has its own blog:
In some cases, group activities are visible to everyone in the course. In other cases, group activities are visible only to members of the specified group. You will learn about these settings in Chapter 8,Working with Groups.
A group activity, like the blog shown previously, can be graded. When you give a grade for a group activity, everyone in the specified group gets the same grade.