Create and manage groups

Updated 16 hours ago by Rana Wilds

Creating groups
- Who can create a Group
How to add/remove users from a Group
Inviting a Group to collaborate
Notifications
FAQs

Groups are a fantastic way to allow you to share boards with groups of people easily. Groups can be used to organize members into smaller groups, such as classes, project teams or departments.

Say you have an entire class you'd like to invite to contribute posts onto your board. Instead of inviting them all individually, one at a time -> Create a Group! You can add all your students from a particular class into a Group and invite them all at the same time.

Creating groups

There are two different ways you can create a Group within your Padlet for Schools account:

Through your LMS

If your Padlet for Schools account is connected to a LMS, you can enable automatic user group provisioning. Learn how to sync them here: Sync your LMS classes to Padlet user groups.

Contact us

If you do not have your Padlet for Schools account currently connected to a LMS, to create a Group you will need to contact us and request a Groups form. We will send you a form to fill out and send back to us! Once we receive your completed form we will get started on creating your Group for you.

The self-serve option for creating Groups will be available in a later release.

If you want to get a head start, fill out this CSV form and send it to us! We can get started on creating your Group for you! Please allow 3-5 days for this to be completed on our end.

Once you have a Group (or Groups) created in your account, you can find them listed on your dashboard under 'Groups,' as shown below:

Who can create a Group

The Group feature is available to all members of Padlet for Schools (.com) and Padlet for Schools (.org) accounts. However, only Owners, Admins and Teachers of these accounts can request the creation of groups.

How to add/remove users from a Group

There are two different ways you can add/remove users from a Group:

Through your LMS

If your Padlet for Schools account is connected to a LMS, you can add/remove users from a group directly from your Learning Management System. Learn how to add/remove them here: Sync your LMS classes to Padlet user groups.

Contact us

For now, if you wish to add/remove users from your Group and you do not have a Padlet for Schools account, you will need to contact us so that we can do this for you.

The self-serve option for adding/removing users within a Group will be available in a later release.

Inviting a Group to collaborate

Once you have created your Group you can invite the Group as a whole to your board! To invite one of your Groups to collaborate on your board, it is very similar to inviting individual users. Simply open the board and click on the Share arrow on the top right side > type the name of your Group in the 'Add a collaborator' field. Once you have selected your Group, click Invite!

You must be the Owner or the Admin of a board to add a Group as a collaborator.

The default setting for Groups will be set to Reader. The option to change this is directly beside the group after you click Invite. This is the same for individual collaborators that you invite.

Notifications

What happens when members are added to a Group? How do they know they are a part of it? This is the same process as when you're invited individually to a padlet. All Group members will receive an email notification to let them know they've been added to a Group and invited to your board.

FAQs

I'm a student in my Padlet for Schools account and I can't add a Group to collaborate on my padlet. I thought it was available to everyone?

First, you must be the Owner or Admin of a board to create a group. To add a Group to your list of collaborators, the following rules apply:

Teachers/Admins: Can add any Groups
Students: Can only add Groups they belong to

Can other members of my organization see my Groups?

On the dashboard, you can only see groups you are a member of. Within the Share panel, Owners/Admins/Teachers can search all groups within the tenant. Students can only search groups they are a member of.

I want everyone in my Group to have Writer permissions except for a select few. Can I separate the permissions within the Group to allow for this?

No. At this time, all Group members must share the same permissions. If one member of the Group has Writer permissions - they all have Writer permissions.

Can I add someone to more than one Group?

Yes! Users can be a part of multiple Groups at one time.