Chapter 7
Groups in the Polar Cloud

Polar Cloud groups provides a convenient means of sharing printer access, printer control, and objects with group members. Creating a group is typically the most convenient way to configure class, lab, school, library, or club access to a printer.


Figure 7.1: Polar Cloud menu Connect Groups

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Figure 7.2: Polar Cloud menu Connect Groups (narrow display)

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At the Polar Cloud top menu, under “Connect”, click “Groups (Figure 7.1 on large displays, or Figure 7.2 on narrow displays) to take you to the “GROUPS” screen, with with tabs to list either “MY GROUPS” or “PUBLIC GROUPS”, as shown in Figure 7.3.


Figure 7.3: Polar Cloud GROUPS screen

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Note that when you click “GROUPS”, you will see highlighted whichever of “MY GROUPS” or “PUBLIC GROUPS” you most recently viewed.

 7.1 Creating a group
  7.1.1 Creating groups corresponding to Google Classroom classes
 7.2 Group settings
  7.2.1 Group settings: name, description, location, website, tags
  7.2.2 Group settings: policies for joining and privacy
  7.2.3 Group settings: printer control
  7.2.4 Group settings: enabling group discussions
  7.2.5 Group settings: profile and banner images
 7.3 Group membership
  7.3.1 Joining a group via the group join code
  7.3.2 Inviting Polar Cloud members to join a group
  7.3.3 Inviting colleagues to join a group via email
  7.3.4 Requesting to join a group
  7.3.5 Remove member from a group
  7.3.6 Leaving a group oneself
 7.4 Sharing objects with a group
  7.4.1 UNSHARE objects from a group
 7.5 Sharing printers within a group
 7.6 Assign curriculum modules to a group
 7.7 Unassign curriculum modules from a group
 7.8 Participating in group discussions
 7.9 Organizational groups
 7.10 Searching for a group
 7.11 Deleting a group