Comment 0 for bug 1597133

In bug ​#826649 new functionality is introduced to Mahara so that all groups can have group shortnames and thus be updated via CSV files. The group shortname was not enough to add though as an institution shortname is needed as well.

Currently, groups created by CSV have to be associated with an institution so that:
1. Institution admins only create groups within their realm of administrative permissions.
2. Institution admins can't bulk add users from other institutions to their group to prevent issues.
3. web services calls can be made in the future to create groups and allow institutions to manage that.

The problem though is that the current screen "Administer groups" doesn't say which groups belong to which institution making it difficult for a site administrator to see which groups can be updated by institution admins and which ones can't because all have a group shortname.

The way forward is the following:

1. Add the institution shortname "mahara" to all manually created groups so that there are no error messages.
2. Implement an institution selector (like we have on Administration -> Users -> User search for example) so that site admins can filter the groups by institution to quickly download the CSV file with all the groups an institution can administer as well as group membership (currently in review).

Additional wishlist items are separately reported and don't form part of this fix:

A. Make "Administer groups" available to institution administrators so that they can see all the groups they can administer, similarly to the "User search" page.

B. Allow the institution association to be changed so that institution admins could take over a manually created group.