https://grok.lsu.edu/Updated Course Setup articles!60https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20253 The Groups and Groupings Overview page allows the view of all current student groups as well as groups of groups ("groupings") and is an exhaustive list. To Access the Groups and Groupings Overview Page: Click the Admin gear to the upper right of your course page, then expand Users20253 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:33:09 GMTTue, 17 Mar 2026 16:33:09 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20241 Groups in Moodle organize participants for filtering, communication, and differentiated activities. Groups can be useful if: You have a course with multiple course sections* that have independent projects or content You are teaching a course with other instructors and need to vi20241 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:31:17 GMTTue, 17 Mar 2026 16:31:17 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20242 A grouping is a collection of groups in a Moodle course that can be used to manage which groups of students see or use specific activities and resources. Students are enrolled in groups based on course section information. Because of this default group setting, it is recommended that for any a20242 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:40:09 GMTTue, 17 Mar 2026 15:40:09 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20701 The Cross-enroll tool allows primary course instructors to combine course sections from different but overlapping terms into a new Moodle teaching course. This self-service tool works entirely within LSU Moodle and is intended for LSU A&M web-based courses and LSU Online courses that are taught d20701 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:47:23 GMTTue, 10 Feb 2026 11:47:23 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20688 The Crosslist & Split tool (see GROK 20662 for more information) allows a primary course instructor to create a new Moodle course with their laboratory course sections as Moodle groups while keeping the ability to post grades to the lecture course. The new course name will not carryover the "(W20688 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:29:52 GMTMon, 09 Feb 2026 08:29:52 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20269 The Course Tools page collects together displays, links, and blocks that are especially useful for management of a student's course. You may access it by clicking the Course Tools link at the bottom of the table of contents for a course: which loads 20269 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:03:30 GMTFri, 30 Jan 2026 15:03:30 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20662 Crosslist & Split allows an instructor to manage their course sections effectively by either combining multiple courses into a single course shell, separating them into different course shells, or combining and splitting. This tool is designed to streamline the process of course management, ensur20662 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:56:04 GMTWed, 07 Jan 2026 10:56:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20691 The Crosslist & Split tool ( see GROK 20662 ) can be used by an instructor to create a new Moodle course containing their undergraduate and graduate offerings of a course. Students from both courses combined by cross-listing will be enrolled in new, separate groups in a new Moodle course shell.20691 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:55:27 GMTWed, 07 Jan 2026 10:55:27 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20229 The Course Tools page contains information and links that are especially useful for managing a course. The contents and appearance of Course Tools will vary depending upon your role as a student or instructor in the course. Get more details based upon your role: Instructor—See 20229 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:48:56 GMTMon, 03 Nov 2025 13:48:56 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20491 User bulk enrollment allows a course administrator to manually enroll multiple users as students in a course simultaneously. This is especially useful for courses that do not use UES enrollment methods. In order to use this method, you must have a list of user email addresses that you can copy and 20491 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:07:21 GMTMon, 20 Oct 2025 13:07:21 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20058 Many websites, such as publishers and academic technology services, provide material and interactive learning opportunities complementary to what is offered within Moodle. The external tool allows instructors and students to access these activities from within their Moodle courses and, for some too20058 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:57:40 GMTFri, 17 Oct 2025 13:57:40 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20218 In Moodle, a Panopto video can be embedded into course content. To do so, please follow the steps below. To Embed a Panopto Video within a Moodle Activity or Assignment: Log in to Moodle , and open your desired course. Locate your desired activity, and then select Edit/Penc20218 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:33:19 GMTTue, 02 Sep 2025 11:33:19 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20453 Below you will find answers to the most commonly asked questions about Moodle. All Users How can I change or remove my Moodle Profile photo? User profile photos can now be removed or replaced. When a user profile is first created, Moodle attempts to retrieve the user's photo f20453 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:25:57 GMTThu, 21 Aug 2025 12:25:57 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20159 General Information Activities & Resources in Moodle are the tools and features that you can add to your course as content resources, practice activities, and measurable assessments. The LSU Moodle site contains a list of standard Moodle activities and resources plus additional plug-ins adde20159 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:32:12 GMTFri, 15 Aug 2025 14:32:12 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20479 This article will cover some important functions relating to Panopto Assignment folders. Specifically we will cover creating multiple assignment folders, how to allow students to see others submissions, and any other relevant processes to the LSU community as they are identified. Click on the 20479 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:28:16 GMTMon, 11 Aug 2025 15:28:16 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20499 To Delete Zoom Recordings: Go to lsu.zoom.us and log in with your LSU credentials. Click Recordings on the left navigation. This will take you to a list of all of your Zoom cloud recordings. Find the cloud recording you wish to delete and click 20499 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:18:59 GMTMon, 28 Jul 2025 16:18:59 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20392 To Share Zoom Recordings to Moodle via a link: Go to lsu.zoom.us and log in with your LSU credentials. Click Recordings on the left navigation.This will take you to a list of all of your Zoom cloud recordings. Find the cloud recording you wish to sh20392 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:09:04 GMTMon, 28 Jul 2025 15:09:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17456 General Information Panopto is a video platform which includes software for recording and live streaming video, a portal for storing and managing your videos, a search engine for finding content inside your videos, and interactive video players. Panopto is a great resource for17456 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:56:58 GMTMon, 21 Jul 2025 10:56:58 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=19968 Important Announcement regarding Zoom - New changes starting Thursday, March 24, 2022 • Each user’s Zoom configuration will be updated to only record a single view. • For faculty and staff, all recorded content older than a year will be deleted from the Zoom Cloud Recording storage. Goi19968 Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:22:26 GMTFri, 11 Jul 2025 16:22:26 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20319 The RollSheet block allows an instructor to create a printable rollsheet listing the students in the class, with or without pictures. The text rollsheet is created in a spreadsheet format, and the photo rollsheet is created with image boxes of user avatars. Only primary instructors, non-pri20319 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:59:30 GMTMon, 30 Jun 2025 11:59:30 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20312 Blocks in Moodle are small content areas that contain important tools and functions for managing a Moodle course. Blocks are located in three places in Moodle: on the My Home page, at the bottom of the My Courses page, and in the block drawer. The block drawer on the Moodle front page or in a Moo20312 Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:50:16 GMTMon, 30 Jun 2025 11:50:16 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20316 The Text block allows the user to create a block with any kind of text editor content, including content created through HTML. The block is located in the block drawer and is visible to both instructors and students. A title and content for the block may be supplied, and this block may be added m20316 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:29:11 GMTFri, 27 Jun 2025 16:29:11 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20318 The Latest announcements block provides access to the Announcements forum , which is a special forum that is automatically included in all courses. By default, all course participants are subscribed to Announcements and will receive an email when a post is made. Any post will also appear in th20318 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:18:25 GMTFri, 27 Jun 2025 16:18:25 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=19791 Blocks in Moodle are located in three places: on the My Home page, at the bottom of the My Courses page, and in the block drawer in the site sidebar . Users cannot add blocks to the My Courses page. The following instructions are for adding a block to the block drawer or to the My Home page. F19791 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:04:03 GMTFri, 27 Jun 2025 15:04:03 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20260 While registered students are automatically enrolled into your course, you can manually enroll extra participants, such as a Teaching Assistant (TA) or Guest Instructor. For the manual user to work with students, they must then be added to any section groups or manual groups in the course. To 20260 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:17:15 GMTFri, 20 Jun 2025 15:17:15 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20165 Moodle allows all teaching roles (including TAs) except the Non-Editing Instructor to back up Moodle courses. The process saves a backup file of the current state of a course according to settings selected during the process. When the process is complete, the backup file is available through Simp20165 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:04:59 GMTFri, 20 Jun 2025 15:04:59 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20209 Selective Import allows instructors and TAs (excluding Non-Editing Instructors) to import selected content from one Moodle course into another on the same site. This process is similar to copying and pasting and does not create a backup file. Simple Restore is best suited for initially popula20209 Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:27:39 GMTWed, 18 Jun 2025 16:27:39 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20178 Course reuse in a Moodle course shell allows instructors to use Selective import , Backup , and Simple Restore functions. Selective import and Backup are located in the Course reuse menu in the Course Administration menu . The Simple Restore function is accessed through the block drawe20178 Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:21:07 GMTWed, 18 Jun 2025 16:21:07 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20172 Course Splitting allows an instructor to separate multiple sections of a course into different Moodle courses. Each section can be its own Moodle course, or groups of sections can be combined into courses together. NOTE: It is recommended that you split your course before importing mate20172 Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:03:03 GMTFri, 13 Jun 2025 16:03:03 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17476 All Panopto recordings are managed within the LSU Panopto Web Portal, which you can access via the Panopto Moodle Block in your Moodle course. To manage your recordings you must do the following. To Manage Your Panopto Recordings within Moodle: Log in to Mood17476 Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:00:28 GMTFri, 13 Jun 2025 16:00:28 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20194 In Moodle, several types of files can be uploaded directly into a course as a standalone resource, including word-processed documents, slideshow presentations, and PDFs. Files may be added by uploading from an external source, such as computer or USB drive, or by dragging and dropping directly onto20194 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:07:18 GMTFri, 06 Jun 2025 15:07:18 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20169 LSU Faculty and Staff members may begin using Panopto within Moodle after they've completed the following steps: enabling the Panopto Moodle Block within their Moodle course and provisioning their course in Moodle. You can optionally also download the recorder from the Moodle Block within your co20169 Wed, 21 May 2025 13:55:59 GMTWed, 21 May 2025 13:55:59 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20176 If you do not intend to use particular Moodle courses, they can be removed from your listing by designating those courses as unwanted. Note : Instructors should NOT use this feature to hide or remove courses from the My Courses page. Doing so will result in a loss of student and course data. 20176 Mon, 19 May 2025 12:45:01 GMTMon, 19 May 2025 12:45:01 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20175 Instructors can use a blueprint course to streamline course creation and maintain consistency across sections. Blueprint courses can be accessed at any time and students are never enrolled in them, allowing instructors to experiment with course design and structure without affecting an active tea20175 Mon, 19 May 2025 10:19:53 GMTMon, 19 May 2025 10:19:53 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20661 The Workday Preferences Block is located in the block drawer in the side menu on the right of the homepage of Moodle. It can also be found at the bottom of the My Courses Page. This block contains several links to settings that can be personalized according to the instructor's preference, each of w20661 Mon, 19 May 2025 09:35:09 GMTMon, 19 May 2025 09:35:09 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20291 Simple Restore enables instructors and TAs (excluding Non-Editing Instructors) to restore an entire Moodle course from a backup file—ideal for initially populating a course. Instructors have the option to merge the backup’s contents with existing material or completely overwrite the course. In bo20291 Mon, 19 May 2025 08:17:15 GMTMon, 19 May 2025 08:17:15 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=19943 How to Favorite a Course in Moodle Although it is no longer possible to hide courses in Moodle, users may "favorite" the desired course. To do so, please follow these steps: Log into Moodle using your myLSU account username and password. Once directed to the welcome pag19943 Wed, 14 May 2025 23:07:02 GMTWed, 14 May 2025 23:07:02 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20347 Whenever automatic captions are generated in Zoom, they are captured as a .VTT file. Your VTT file can be readily downloaded and viewed as text by following the directions below. Opening Your Zoom Transcript (.VTT) File as Text Login to lsu.zoom.us Click on the Recordings 20347 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:11:27 GMTMon, 07 Apr 2025 11:11:27 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20629 This article provides guidance on changing the Instructor of Record (IoR) for courses after an IoR has already been assigned in Workday and a Moodle course is in use. NOTE: This process does not replace contacting the Faculty Technology Center (FTC) for assistance. Overvi20629 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:13:46 GMTThu, 06 Mar 2025 12:13:46 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20282 Roles In Moodle Primary and non-primary instructors and students are automatically assigned in Moodle via information received from the mainframe. However, on occasion, instructors may need to assign additional instructors, teaching assistants, or students to a course. Role assignment privileg20282 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:53:00 GMTMon, 03 Mar 2025 15:53:00 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20181 The steps below outline the process of how an instructor of a course can import materials from a colleague's course. To Import Materials from another Instructor's Course: Prepare the Content: Instructor A (the colleague providing the course content) should ensure that the content is20181 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:52:37 GMTMon, 24 Feb 2025 12:52:37 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20180 To Overwrite a Current Course: Log in to Moodle and click the desired course to overwrite. Select Course Tools. Then locate the Simple Restore section of the page then click Overwrite current course. Search for and select the desired backup file th20180 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:57:48 GMTMon, 24 Feb 2025 11:57:48 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20179 Simple Restore's Import All Materials allows instructors and TAs (excluding Non-Editing Instructors) to import all of the content from a course backup file saved to the site into a current course without clearing the content that already exists there. If you are importing content from a Blueprint C20179 Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:56:43 GMTMon, 24 Feb 2025 11:56:43 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17901 General Information VoiceThread is a collaborative tool that allows users to add images, documents, and videos, to which other users can add voice, text, audio file, or video comments. To ensure VoiceThread activities imports into other Moodle courses, make sure to click on the "Select 17901 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:56:40 GMTWed, 05 Feb 2025 14:56:40 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=19939 Changing the course cover image in Moodle courses can be used to add interest to your course page. In addition to appearing on the top of the course page, the image appears on the course tile for your course on the My Courses page for anyone who is enrolled in your course. To Change Your Course19939 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:33:37 GMTThu, 08 Aug 2024 14:33:37 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20234 You may need to temporarily hide a section from students while you are in the process of adding or editing its contents. To hide a section, simply navigate to the offending section and click on the open eye icon located in the toolbar just below the name. This icon is a toggle control, so clicking 20234 Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:34:43 GMTTue, 02 Jul 2024 12:34:43 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20233 Whether formatted as Topics or Weekly, sections are simply the containers in which course content is organized and stored. New blank teaching courses are create with 10 sections, but you can delete unneeded sections or create new ones as needed. To create a new section, scroll down to the bott20233 Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:13:10 GMTTue, 02 Jul 2024 11:13:10 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20313 Moodle: Course Tools: Deleting a Block Log into Moodle and select the desired course. Select Course Tools from the CONTENTS panel. Select the Edit Blocks button under the Course Tools section. Find the block that you want to delete. Fo20313 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:20:31 GMTThu, 13 Jun 2024 10:20:31 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20361 The text editor has many icons to assist the user in entering content. Many of these icons and functions should be familiar to anyone who uses a word processor. Some examples of where you will see the text editor include: Editing Section headings, description of an activity, writing an answer 20361 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:20:32 GMTMon, 03 Jun 2024 13:20:32 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20206 To Add A Quiz in Moodle: In the section where you would like to add a quiz, scroll to the bottom and click Create learning activity. On the All or Activities tab, select Quiz . In the settings, fill in the quiz Name and Description. Include instruction20206 Wed, 08 May 2024 10:53:11 GMTWed, 08 May 2024 10:53:11 GMT