A group learning place is a folder with special properties:

• A group can only be created by a teacher and only from within a course folder.
• A group automatically has a knowledge building area.
• The teacher who creates the group is automatically a member of the group.
• The group is listed inside the course.

When you create a group with Main/New/Group, you first have to provide the name and optionally the description of the group. Then you can enroll students from the course into the group. At any time later you can enroll more people with Main/Share/Enroll into the group. When people are enrolled in a group, they have the same role they were assigned in the course. You can also specify whether all members of the course have either no access, read access or full access. No access means that course mates who are not in the group will see the (grayed out) name of the group in their course folder, but they cannot access it. Read access means that course mates who are not in the group will be able to view and copy items from the group learning place. Full access means that all members of the course will be able to do everything within the group learning place that group members can do.