# Allowing some users to make a group

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-users-to-make-a-group/117179
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [5월 8, 2019, 2:42오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-users-to-make-a-group/117179 "2019-05-08T14:42:11Z")
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### Author: ![G\_N](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/g_n/32/140060_2.png) [@G\_N](https://meta.discourse.org/u/G_N)
#### Post date: [5월 8, 2019, 2:42오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-users-to-make-a-group/117179/1 "2019-05-08T14:42:11Z")

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We are configuring Discourse with an additional field for users at the time of registration to select a role Teacher/TeacherEducator/Researcher/Student/Citizen etc. We would like to let the teachers to create public groups, but we cannot make them staff.

Even if we can create a group for each teacher and make each teacher an admin of the group, that will also work for us.

Any suggestions on how we can do this? Thanks in advance!

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [5월 8, 2019, 4:25오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-users-to-make-a-group/117179/2 "2019-05-08T16:25:19Z")

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That’s no problem. You can create the groups and make the teachers the owner of the group so that they can control membership. You could also create a category that was accessible only to group members.

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### Author: ![G\_N](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/g_n/32/140060_2.png) [@G\_N](https://meta.discourse.org/u/G_N)
#### Post date: [5월 9, 2019, 6:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-users-to-make-a-group/117179/3 "2019-05-09T06:24:16Z")

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Thanks. For this the admin have to create the group and handover the ownership to one of the users.

If there is a way how any user who reaches a level (say 3) is allowed to create a public group, that will work just fine for our need.

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [5월 9, 2019, 11:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-users-to-make-a-group/117179/4 "2019-05-09T11:32:39Z")

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I don’t believe so. There might be a plugin that creates a private group for users, but you’ll need to search here.

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [9월 8, 2022, 4:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-some-users-to-make-a-group/117179/6 "2022-09-08T16:30:40Z")

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