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A user group is a group of users who may have some common goals or attributes. You can create user groups to provide ways to classify users other than by organization or custom user attributes. User groups can also be used with roles and organizations in user targeting templates to select users for some LMS features.
Administrators can specify user groups when selecting users for:
When you create or edit a user group you can add users to it from a specific logical domain. Usually you can see only users who are in the same logical domain as you. If you are an administrator in the Global Default domain, you can configure domain-specific user groups. For more information, see About Logical Domains.
User group membership can be affected when:
You specify how often the LMS recalculates user group membership by selecting Daily, Weekly or Monthly from the User Group Membership Refresh Frequency System Configuration setting. You can also refresh a user group's membership by saving it.
Like other LMS objects, you can configure permissions for user groups to determine who can use them to select users and who can edit them.
You can configure user groups in the LMS directly or via the User Group Data Loader. Third-party applications can also create and delete user groups, add and remove their members, and assign and remove supervisors using the LMS API.
To create or edit user groups, your user role must have unrestricted access to the User Groups feature in System Roles (Manage Features > User Manager Features). To view the members of a user group, your user role needs only read-only access.
To configure user groups in the Manage Center, go to Manage Center > Users > User Groups. When you open the User Groups page in the LMS it lists all user groups, 25 per page, by default. You can filter the list of user groups and show only those that you created, to help you locate specific groups.
Additional Information
About the User Group Data Loader
