How can I remove the Student Groups tab in People

In Canvas, once there are a self-organized group been created, the Student Groups will be created. the Student Groups tab will then stay in the People page forever.

I can not find a way to remove it even there are no more groups inside.

Can anybody show me how?

It will be quite confuse to users with the tab there.

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kblack

Hello @ctmay - I am not aware of any way to remove that GROUPS tab, even after disabling the ability for students to form their own groups. I do not know what age range you are teaching, but frankly--after teaching undergraduates in college for years--the average student tends not to get very adventurous in a course site clicking places unless they know there's something there. (It's all I could do to get them to click on Assignments when something was due!) I understand your concern, however, about the basic design issue of making something available but then having nothing there, so I suppose one solution may be to simply hide the PEOPLE menu item altogether from the student's perspective. I'm not a big fan of this, personally (since this is one way for students to message you and others in the class) but it's up to you and about the only way I can think of to hide that GROUPS tab. Information on how to hide a menu item is here: How do I reorder and hide Course Navigation links?

Hope this helps.

reichard

I just ran into the same issue - since the "Student Groups" tab shows up as the first group set, other students believe this is the one they should use too. And here goes another team "believing" they signed up for an official group that is required for submission of graded work ... disabling this feature upfront could save this headache for instructors.

JDBrewer

I teach 6th graders and they are already confused enough about using Canvas without adding an extra Student Groups tab. I had created the appropriate tab for them to make groups of 3 by period but 7 rebels decided they would make a group called The Red Girls. They soon became The Dead Girls as I deleted the group...LOL Oh boy, I can't wait to see what pops up there next with 11-12-year-olds naming new, unauthorized groups.

unknown

Good grief, another case of "Canvas knows what's best" that is going to create confusion and headaches. Instructors should have the ability to delete groups (and assignments, or whatever)!

berwin

Guess this was never fixed.

Even as Canvas Field Admin, there's no way to delete the Student Groups tab.

Why would no one have permission to delete a student created tab?

berwin

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/A-student-created-a-group-in-my-course-instead-of-signing-up-for/m-p/218869#M118356

Just in case you navigate here, check out the above thread for more information.

cbajorek

Hello! I have the same problem, even when I went in and changed the settings for student group creation. I am not given the option to delete the Group Set. How else would I eliminate the student group area that was created? Please note that the students do not need this area, as groups were created for them. I have been able to delete the groups pre-set before and this is the first time I have run into this problem.

I was able to change the ability of students to create their groups. In addition, I deleted the groups that were created. Outside of that, I put a group in that states for the students not to utilize this specific group area and to see the group tab that I created for them. This seems to be the only solution at this time.

CoriFaklaris

It is the year 2025. Why is this not fixed!! I would never have enabled student organization of groups if I knew it created a different Group Set that I cannot edit or delete.

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