In Paypeople LMS, a group is a collection of users who are organized together for the purpose of course assignments, reporting, and management. Groups offer a convenient way to administer training to specific subsets of users and to track their progress collectively.
How to Work with Groups? #
Paypeople LMS lets you organize your users in groups and assign one or more courses to all group members with a single click.
To create your first group, follow these steps:
- Sign in to your Paypeople LMS account as Administrator, go to Groups, and click Create e New button.
Note: Instructors can also access groups from their dashboard.
- Type a distinct Name (e.g., Startup courses) and a Description for your new group.
- If you want users to register themselves to the group, simply click Group key to generate a self-registration key .
- Then, send the Group key to users along with the simple instructions on how to self-register. (You’ll find instructions at the end of this article.)
Note: You can replace the generated key by typing your own key in the Group key field.
- If you want to sell courses associated with the group as a course bundle, click Price and type your preferred amount.
- Click Add group to complete the process.
- After the new group has been added, you’re automatically taken to the Users tab on the group page. To add a user to your group, just click the respective add symbol to add employee and minus symbol to remove employee in the Options column.
Note: If you have sent a Group key to the users you want in the group, there’s no need to add them manually.
- Go to the Courses tab to choose which courses the group members can access. To assign a course to your group, just click the respective add symbol in the Options column.
- Return to the Users tab to assign the selected courses to group members.
- To assign all courses to a specific user, click the respective add symbol on the Synchronize users with courses column.
- Go to the Files tab to upload file.
How can Learners Join a Group with a Group Key? #
To use the Group key a learner has to:
- Sign in to their PayPeople LMS account and click Join group on the right-hand panel.
- On the dialogue box that pops up, type the Group key in the respective field.
- Click join and they will be automatically enrolled to all the courses of the group. The courses will appear in their view.
