In this section, we'll look at how to create and use cohorts. You can perform many operations with cohorts in bulk, affecting many students at once.
To create a cohort, perform the following steps:
- From the main menu, select
Site administration
|Users
|Accounts
|Cohorts
. - On the
Cohorts
page, click on theAdd button
. TheAdd new cohort
page is displayed. - Enter a
Name
for the cohort. This is the name that you will see when you work with the cohort. - Enter a
Cohort ID
for the cohort. If you upload students in bulk to this cohort, you will specify the cohort using this identifier. You can use any characters you want in theCohort ID
; however, keep in mind that the file you upload to the cohort can come from a different computer system. To be safe, consider using only ASCII characters, such as letters, numbers, some special characters, and no spaces in theCohort ID option
; for example,Spring_2012_Freshmen
. - Enter a
Description
that will help you and other administrators...