https://grok.lsu.edu/New Activities & Resources articles!60https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20704 The Essay (auto-grade) question type allows a response of a few sentences or paragraphs that can then be automatically graded. Instructors must enable and set up auto-grading conditions and may provide response options and feedback in the question setup. Responses are graded by Moodle according t20704Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:27:28 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20694 Federal Financial Aid regulations require the confirmation of attendance for students to receive federal aid. To meet these regulations, LSU Financial Aid & Scholarships must be able to verify participation in all college courses by the census date, which is the last day for students to add courses20694Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:53:24 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20684 *PLEASE NOTE: The Turnitin Assignment 2 Moodle Activity is no longer available to add to courses. These Turnitin assignments will be disabled and no longer work on December 31, 2027. Currently, these assignments are experiencing intermittent connection failures and support is no longer 20684Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:09:45 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20649 The ALEKS external tool allows instructors to connect their Moodle course to the ALEKS platform, providing students access to the ALEKS personalized learning path in Math, Chemistry, Statistics, or Accounting. Once linked, students can access assignments directly from within Moodle, and their grade20649Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:00:28 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20637 The MATLAB Grader LTI 1.3 and MATLAB and Simulink Online Courses LTI 1.3 streamline access to MathWorks resources directly within Moodle. No additional MathWorks accounts are needed when accessed through Moodle LTIs. MATLAB Grader LTI 1.3 : Allows instructors to deep link to autograde20637Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:55:50 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20636 The Vista Higher Learning (VHL) Central external tool allows instructors to connect their Moodle course to the VHLCentral platform, streamlining access to VHL content, activities, and grade synchronization. Once linked, students can access assignments directly from within Moodle, and their grades w20636Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:12:25 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20635 The Stukent activity is a publisher tool which allows instructors to link Stukent course content or Stukent simulated internships to Moodle courses. The Stukent external tool enables deep linking, which means that students can directly access activities and resources through the Moodle site. Deep l20635Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:52:41 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20634 Honorlock is an online proctoring service used for managing and monitoring remote exams. This service uses a combination of AI and live proctors to maintain exam integrity. During the exam session, the AI program monitors test-takers via browser extension and flags suspicious behavior. At the same 20634Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:25:54 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20616 Attendance Status Once you have added the Attendance activity to your course, you may view the default attendance status and grades a student can select. Go to the Moodle course and click on the Attendance activity. Click the gear icon to open the Attendance administ20616Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:44:56 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20591 *PLEASE NOTE: The Turnitin Assignment 2 Moodle Activity is no longer available to add to courses. These Turnitin assignments will be disabled and no longer work on December 31, 2027. Currently, these assignments are experiencing intermittent connection failures and support is no longer 20591Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:02:11 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20590 *PLEASE NOTE: The Turnitin Assignment 2 Moodle Activity is no longer available to add to courses. These Turnitin assignments will be disabled and no longer work on December 31, 2027. Currently, these assignments are experiencing intermittent connection failures and support is no longer 20590Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:00:33 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20567 To use Zoom in Moodle, the Zoom external tool must be added to a Moodle course section. Instructors can access past recordings, upcoming meeting links, their personal meeting room, and allow students to book a Zoom appointment through this tool. See Moodle: How to Add Zoom to a Moodle Course fo20567Tue, 07 May 2024 11:56:58 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20560 Description The display period advanced forum setting allows instructors to set a display period of a date and time for a forum post to appear, before and after which the post is not visible to students. Usage, Best Practices, and Considerations Consider the following for display per20560Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:15:09 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20557 PeerMark is a peer review tool built into Turnitin. The instructor creates the PeerMark assignment within the Turnitin management interface and the students access it there once it has been created. To Create a PeerMark Assignment from Turnitin on Moodle: Log on to Moodle and se20557Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:14:35 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20551 The Wiley activities are publisher tools that allows instructors to link WileyPlus course content to Moodle courses. Using the Wiley external tools allows for deep linking, which means that students can directly access activities and resources through the Moodle site. Deep linking also allows for g20551Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:43:30 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20550 The Access Pearson LTI 1.3 activity is a publisher tool which allows instructors to link Pearson course content (MyLab, Mastering, Revel, eText, or Live Response) to Moodle courses. The Access Pearson external tool enables deep linking, which means that students can directly access activities and20550Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:34:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20548 Common Activity Settings: Grade Grade is found in activities that allow a gradebook item to be created. Grade category specifies in what gradebook category, if any, the grade for this activity will be entered. See Moodle: Gradebook: Creating Categories to learn m20548Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:24:24 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20547 Common Activity Settings: Visibility Visibility determines the degree to which students can view the activity. You may choose: Show on course page - to make it completely visible, and listed on the course page. Hide from students - to hide the20547Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:48:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20547 Common Activity Settings: Visibility Visibility determines the degree to which students can view the activity. You may choose: Show on course page - to make it completely visible, and listed on the course page. Hide from students - to hide the20547Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:48:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20534 Gradescope is a Turnitin tool that allows instructors to grade multiple formats, including handwritten annotation, paper-based submissions, digital submissions, or coding assignments. This tool uses a dynamic rubric that can be created and edited while grading, where any changes to the rubric wil20534Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:52:38 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20528 Perusall is a social learning platform that allows students to engage with each other and the course material through collaborative annotation tools for text and videos. The goal of each assignment is to stimulate discussion by encouraging students to post good questions or comments, to help others20528Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:46:25 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20525 Regular Expression Short Answer is an enhanced short answer question type that analyzes the student's response more thoroughly by using regular expression (RegExp) syntax. It is best used with questions that require natural language answers and not mathematical or scientific answers. Possibl20525Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:27:44 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20524 Gapfill is a Cloze question type that offers dynamic options with a simpler question-builder interface than the Cloze question type. It can consist of a passage of text that has various answers embedded in it. These answers can be in a drag-and-drop, gapfill short answer, or drop-down format. T20524Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:10:56 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20523 Download Essay Submissions is a quiz report option that allows users to download all essay responses in a quiz. The option Download essay submissions appears in quiz settings under Reports . To Download Essay Submissions from a Quiz: Click on the quiz with essay submissions that yo20523Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:15:31 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20522 The Dates report is a tool that lets the instructor edit all dates for all activities in the course on a single page. To access the Dates report: Click on the Course Administration gear icon and select Reports , then select Dates . The report can be filter20522Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:00:23 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20520 Board is an activity plugin that enables post-it boards for students to collaborate. Contributions are anonymous. The instructor creates a post-it table with columns where students can add new posts with text, links, images, and embedded YouTube videos. Settings for students include closing date fo20520Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:07:25 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20451 The LSU Libraries Research Guides tool allows users to access the LSU Libraries Research Guides home page directly from the Moodle course page. These guides organize resources for teaching and research by subject area, guide type, and LSU Libraries group (Main, Special Collections, and Vet Med). Us20451Mon, 13 May 2024 12:09:32 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20450 Packback is a discussion forum tool for Moodle that helps students actively improve the quality of the questions and responses they post in the tool. On Packback, students are responsible for posting their own discussion questions for their peers to answer, and the tool provides feedback through an20450Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:05:39 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20449 A Panopto video can be added to an individual course section as an External Tool (see article 20058 ). This is also the process for adding a Panopto video quiz, which must be created on the Panopto site (see How to Add a Quiz to a Video ). When videos are added in this way, students will see 20449Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:50:50 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20434 General Information zyBooks is a Moodle plugin that allows students to access assigned open-source, interactive STEM textbooks through a Moodle course. Instructors can create an account on the zyBooks site and select a textbook to evaluate before adopting the book. Evaluation and adopted copie20434Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:21:52 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20432 ProctorU Record+ is a proctoring service integrated in Moodle that allows instructors and students to use ProctorU without leaving the Moodle site. Because the proctoring session occurs within Moodle, there is no live proctor. Identity verification and exam setup are fully automated, and each ses20432Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:44:18 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20427 A forum summary report can give instructors detailed information about a student's discussion, replies, attachments, word count, and more from a forum post. To Locate a Forum Summary Report: Open Moodle and go to your desired course. Click on the forum for which you want a s20427Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:52:09 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20381 After adding a Feedback survey activity to a course, instructors must add questions to the survey. Questions in a feedback activity can be selected from For instructions on how to create a new Feedback survey, see Moodle: Add a Feedback Survey Activity . To Add Questions to a Feedb20381Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:44:49 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20360 Once you have added the Attendance activity to your course, you must now set up attendance sessions. You can add one session or multiple sessions at once if you will be taking attendance on a regular schedule. Tip: Review the default Attendance Status Set before creating Attendance sessi20360Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:25:06 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20354 A student's interaction with the workshop activity changes according to which phase of the workshop is active. The following describes what students will see during the submission, assessment, and grading evaluation phases. For more information on how the workshop works, see Workshop Overview a20354Wed, 28 May 2025 14:57:07 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20352 The Sage Vantage activity is a publisher tool that allows instructors to link Sage Publishing course content to Moodle courses. Using the Sage Vantage external tool allows for deep linking, which means that students can directly access activities and resources through the Moodle site. Deep linking 20352Wed, 22 May 2024 13:49:39 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20348 H5P makes it easy to create, share, and reuse HTML5 content and applications. Content is responsive and mobile friendly, which means that users will experience the same rich, interactive content on computers, smartphones and tablets alike. With H5P, instructors can create and e20348Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:55:51 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20346 Quiz categories are very useful to organize quizzes for future use. Best practices dictate that in the process of making a quiz, the user makes categories first, the questions next, and the quiz activity last. This helps the user stay organized and reduces confusion in the process. You can create s20346Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:38:57 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20337 A Description question page simply shows some text (and possibly graphics) without requiring an answer. It is more of a label than a question type, and can be used to provide instructions, rubrics, graphics, or other content. Note that these questions are not really questions so they are ignor20337Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:50:09 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20336 The Select Missing Words question is very similar to the Drag and Drop into Text question type, but the words/phrases are in a drop down menu. This is helpful when the text is quite long and students would have to scroll a lot to drag and drop. Example: To Add a Select M20336Wed, 01 May 2024 13:28:55 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20335 Random Short-Answer Matching Questions are like a standard Matching question , with answer options in a list, but the sub-questions are generated from the Short Answer questions in the current category. The available answers are generated from the acceptable answers to each short-answer select20335Wed, 01 May 2024 13:14:02 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20334 An OU Multiple Response question is a multiple-choice, multiple-response question type. The main difference from a standard multiple-choice question type is the grading mechanism. When creating a question, the teacher simply indicates which choices are correct. If there are n number of choi20334Wed, 01 May 2024 12:36:54 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20333 Embedded Answers (Cloze) questions consist of a passage of text that has various answers embedded in it. These answers can be in a multiple choice, short answer or numerical format. When creating the passage of text, instructors will need to be aware of the specific formatting rules for each embe20333Wed, 01 May 2024 13:19:46 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20332 For the Drag and Drop Onto Image question type, images or words are dragged and dropped onto pre-defined fields on a background image. Example: To Add Drag and Drop onto Image Questions to the Question Bank: Open Moodle and select your course . In the 20332Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:54:24 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20331 The Drag and Drop Markers question allows students to drop markers onto a predefined area of a background image. The predefined areas on the background image are not visible to the student. Note: When dragging a marker, students must position the little circle in the center of the area the20331Wed, 01 May 2024 13:25:32 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20330 For a Drag and Drop into Text question, missing words in the question text are filled in using drag and drop. Example: To Add a Drag and Drop into Text Question to the Question Bank: Open Moodle and select your course . In the Administration block, click Q20330Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:08:06 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20329 Simple calculated questions offer a way to create individual numerical questions whose response is the result of a numerical formula which contain variable numerical values by the use of wild cards (i.e {x} , {y} ) that are substituted with random values when the quiz is taken. The simple 20329Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:03:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20328 Calculated multi choice questions are like multi choice questions with the additional property that the elements to select can include formula results from numeric values that are selected randomly from a set when the quiz is taken. They use the same wild cards as Calculated questions and their wil20328Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:10:29 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20327 Calculated questions offer a way to create individual numerical questions by the use of wild cards (i.e you can use common variables names as x , y enclosed in curly braces to create the wild cards ( {x} and {y} ) that are substituted with random values when the quiz is taken. For example,20327Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:47:02 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20326 Essay Questions allow a response of a few sentences or paragraphs. This must then be graded manually. For more information, see Manual Grading . NOTE: For longer essays, it is recommended that instructors use the Assignment activity as the Essay question is intended for no more than a c20326Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:16:28 GMT