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We have another use case for hiding group membership from students that has FERPA implications. We are a large, R1 university where some classes have hundreds of student enrollments. A strategy for managing these courses in the LMS is to create groups based on section enrollments, giving students and TAs the ability to have a separate space outside of the main course site where they can communicate and collaborate within their smaller discussion sections, while still keeping one site for lecture assignments, communication, and grade management.  Because students can see group enrollments, they are essentially able to see who is in which section, which is information that is supposed to be protected under FERPA.  We'd rather not hide the People tool completely because it has other features that would be useful to keep.  Even hiding group enrollments completely would be too restrictive, as it may benefit students to see group enrollments for other group activities or assignments in the course. In our case, I think creating an option to hide specific Group Sets would be especially helpful in the management and experience of a large enrollment course. Having this optional setting would allow us the flexibility of creating a Group Set that is just for mimicking section enrollments, which can then be hidden, while still allowing instructors to create other group sets for their course activities. ... View more