brotherton-erpnext/erpnext/docs/user/manual/en/education/student/student-group.md

# Student Group

A student group is a collection of students taking same course. You can create Course Schedules and Examinations against a Student Group.

A Student Group needs to be created for every course for **Academic Term** and **Academic Year**. The student group can be create based on **Batch, Course and Activity**. 

To create a Student Group go to:

> Education > Student > New Student Group 


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To create a Student group based on **Batch**, select the **Progam** and **Batch**, where as to create a Student group based on **Course**, you will only have to select the Course Code. Creating a student group based on activity allows you to group of student for events and activities happening in the institute. 

Once a student group is created you can mark attendance for the group. 

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You can also update the **Email Group** for the Student Group. Click on Update Email Group to add all the email ids of the gaurdians in the respective email group and **Newsletter** can be created and sent to the Email group.

#### Tutorial Video on Student Groups



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