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- What basic categories of groups do you wish to manage? (e.g. classes, committees, workgroups, groups that share an entitlement, major subsets of your community, such as students/freshman/faculty/IT staff, etc. etc. etc.)
- Determine a basic stem / folder structure that supports two or more initial categories of groups. See examples from other sites.
- Determine your groups naming scheme. Example here.
- Flat or bushy?
- Will you use the template wizard for creating folders and groups?
Determine application and data components to use
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