--- title: "Creating and Managing User Groups in SharePoint" canonical: "https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/26043613189/Creating%20and%20Managing%20User%20Groups%20in%20SharePoint" format: markdown --- Site owners in SharePoint can create user groups in order to organize site members and manage access. After creating a group, you can limit folders and file permissions based on groups. > ℹī¸ It is not necessary to create a user group to add members to a SharePoint site. To simply add members to a SharePoint site see [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26267060048](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26267060048) . > 📝 Follow these guides if you have first reviewed [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26282393614](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26282393614) *and* you have more than one group of users that you would like to hide folders from. > ⚠ī¸ User Groups are required for folders that contain more than 100,000 items if you need to restrict access to the folder. ## Learn how to manage User Groups > Macro (children) ## Related Articles > Macro (contentbylabel)