Stage 5: Merge Group & Same Time Group

1. Merge Group

Merge Group is a combination of a few sections under the same group. For example, on a course, you may merge a few subgroups under the same group so that when the class is start, all subgroups will attend the class at the same time, same place and same venue.

To open Merge Groups, you may go to Grouping and select Merge Groups.

Diagram 1.1. Location of Merge Groups

Diagram 1.2 Merge Groups

There are few icons that need to be studied before adding the sections into Merge Groups.

	Click this icon to add new merge group.
	Click this icon to add course.
	Click this icon to delete the section or merge group.
	Click this icon to delete all the merge group.
	Click this icon to delete all empty merge group.
	Click this icon to exclude sections in all merge group.
	Click this icon to include sections in all merge group.
	Click this icon to expand group.
	Click this icon to collapse group.
	Click this icon to import from SIS.
	Click this icon to refresh the view of merge group.

Add Merge Group

There are 3 alternative ways of adding Merge Group.

ALTERNATIVE 1: To add Merge Group, click on the add new merge group icon .

Note that new group you created will automatically appear at the bottom list of merge group. When you reopening the Merge Group section, the new group can be found in the list of merge group according to alphabetical order.

Diagram 1.3 New Merge Group

To rename, you can select the merge group folder and click once again. OR you can right click and select Rename Group. For Example, we rename the new group as "DIA4C S4 G1 G3 MERGE GROUP LECTURES 02 BBA30203".

Diagram 1.4 Merge Group Rename

Once added new group, select the the merge group and click on Add Course icon   

A window will appear, showing the courses that can be selected.

Diagram 1.5 Select Courses Window

Diagram 1.6 Course Moved To The Right Side

This is how it will looks like once Merge Group is added.

Diagram 1.7 Merge Group Added

ALTENATIVE 2: OR You can simply go to the Tree Structure and right click a constraint group folder. Select Moves To Group and then select Merge Group.

Note that this will move every constraint folder or section under it to the group as well.

Diagram 1.8 Location of Merge Groups on Right Click

A pop-up will appear, showing Select Merge Group option. You may select from the list or if there none, click Add icon  to add a new Merge Group. Click Ok once done.

Diagram 1.9 Pop-Up Select Merge Group

Another pop-up will appear once you click on the selected merge group. Click Yes afterward.

Diagram 1.10 Pop-Up Confirmation

ALTERNATIVE 3: OR you can simply double click on section at tree structure and update the merge group.

Diagram 1.11 Double Click Section

Section Properties window will appear.

Diagram 1.12 Section Properties Window

Once updated, you can view the details on Section Details on right side.

Diagram 1.13 Location of Section Details