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Managing Group Members and User Group Membership

By managing group members, you can make changes like disabling, deleting, or sending messages to them. You can also export member information as a contact list for use in other applications, such as an email address book.

This section allows you to change a selected member's role from administrator to member, or vice versa. An administrator role permits a member to make many of the same changes you can, as the group's owner.

To see a quick count of members and followers, click AboutAbout on your group's landing page. From here, you can click on the Followers and Members links to be directed to your group's People page.

Managing Group Members​

To manage group members:

  1. Go to the group and click the Gear icon > Manage > Members.
  2. To manage multiple members at once, select all members you want to modify and then use the Modify selected list to select the action you want to apply to all selected members.
  3. Click Change > Change Role, Disable or Delete next to the members you want to manage.
  4. Click OK.

Adding and Removing Users to User Groups​

A user group includes members and administrators. As a user group administrator, you can add members and administrators to the group.

Fastpath

Admin Console: People > Management > User Group Summary

If you want admins to have the same permissions (if any) granted to a user group, you also need to add them to the Group Member list. When admins are not added to the Group Members list, they only have permission to add or remove users from the Group Members and Group Admins lists, and do not have the permissions (if any) assigned to the user group.

To edit the membership list for an existing user group:

  1. In the Admin Console, go to People > Management > User Group Summary.
  2. Click Edit next to the group from which you want to add or delete members.
  3. Click Edit next to Admins or Members, depending on which you want to add or edit.
  4. Add members to the group by typing their name in the Add Member box, then clicking the Add button. If you don't know the name, click User Picker to browse or search a list of users, then select the check box for the user you want to add. Unless they have access to the Admin Console, users won't know which user groups they're a part of.
  5. Add admins in the same way you add members. User group administrators have access to the portions of the Admin Console where they can manage settings and membership for the group they're administering. You may want to add this Admin to the Group Member list to grant them user group permissions, if any.
  6. Click Update.
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