Success Stories? Account-Level Groups

[koranskm]

Hello!

My institution is looking to implement account-level groups, rather than create courses for each individual group set. The thought is that each major could have a group to connect students with internships, jobs, and other extracurricular opportunities. I think a Group would be a great tool for this. Has anyone else used Account-Level Groups? Can only admin manage enrollment for these groups? Any advice would be wonderful!

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @koranskm ...

Back in March 2017, I wrote a blog posting here in the Community called Campus Clubs and Groups - Instructure Community.  We have since moved away from this model at our campuses because having a full course shell offers more features than account-level groups do.  Also, we as Canvas administrators had to be the ones to add/remove people from the groups.  Since each club/group has their own Canvas course shell now, we set those up with the self-enrollment URL option...so that the club/group leader can just send out the self-enroll URL to specific students, and those students can then enroll in that club/group via that URL.  The catch for us is that anyone who wants to use a self-enroll URL needs to already have a user account within our school's Canvas environment.

I'm not sure if this will be of help to you, but I thought I'd pass along the information...for what it's worth.  Let Community members know if you have any questions about this...thanks!