https://grok.lsu.edu/New Activities & Resources articles!60https://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=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=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=20353 To Add the WileyPlus Activity: Login to Moodle and select your course. In the course section where you would like to display WileyPlus activity, click on Create learning activity. Choose External Tool from the Activities tab. 20353Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:14:20 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 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20325 From the student perspective, a numerical question looks just like a short-answer question. The difference is that numerical answers are allowed to have an accepted error. This allows a fixed range of answers to be evaluated as one answer. For example, if the answer is 30 with an accepted erro20325Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:20:12 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20324 In a short answer question, the student types in a word or phrase in response to a question (that may include a image). Answers may or may not be case sensitive. The answer could be a word or a phrase, but it must match one of your acceptable answers exactly. It's a good idea to keep the required a20324Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:45:35 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20323 Matching questions consist of a content area (which may include a list of sub-questions) and a list of names or statements that students must match correctly. Each match is equally weighted to contribute towards the grade for the total question. (For example, if a Matching question has 10 pairs a20323Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:49:11 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20322 A student is given only two choices for an answer in this kind of question: True or False. The question content can include an image, video, or html code. To Add a True/False Question to the Question Bank Open Moodle and select your course . In the Administration blo20322Mon, 06 May 2024 12:28:32 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20321 General Information There are several different types of quiz questions that can be used in Moodle. When creating questions, a box like the one below will appear. The dialog box gives a brief description of each type of question when it is selected; they are also provided below. Click on the h20321Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:05:25 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20320 With the Multiple Choice question type you can create single-answer and multiple-answer questions, include pictures, sound or other media in the question and/or answer options (by inserting HTML) and weight individual answers. To Add a Multiple Choice Question to the Question Bank Ope20320Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:02:16 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20315 Please note: Documentation is in progress for this article. Please check back periodically for updated information. Before students access a Moodle course for the first time, there are a few preparations instructors can make to ensure that students are able to get to work on the first day 20315Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:38:52 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20303 When a lesson is available to students, they will click on the activity and navigate through the content. The appearance of the activity will depend on how the instructor has set up the activity (whether the will see a progress bar, menu of pages, a countdown counter, etc.). How to View Studen20303Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:59:42 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20296 The Feedback activity allows instructors to create a customized survey for collecting feedback through a variety of question types. Instructors can write their own customized questions, and any question can be non-graded, which makes this activity useful for evaluations. For help with submissions20296Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:52:07 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20286 The Feedback activity allows instructors to create a customized survey using various question types. For information on adding a Feedback activity to a course, see GROK 20296, Adding a Feedback Activity . For help with adding questions to a Feedback activity, see GROK 20381, Adding Feedback 20286Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:42:26 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20285 The journal activity in Moodle gives students a private space to respond to a prompt—the work students submit is visible only to the instructor. Instructors can either limit the availability of a journal entry or leave it open so that the student can add to it indefinitely. While it is open, studen20285Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:53:36 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20284 The journal activity in Moodle gives students a private space to respond to a prompt—the work students submit is visible only to the instructor. Instructors can either limit the availability of a journal entry or leave it open so that the student can add to it indefinitely. While it is open, studen20284Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:56:45 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20255 Managing Turnitin Rubrics Score a Student Paper Rubrics/Grading Forms associated to assignments in Turnitin assignment settings are automatically available to instructors when they are grading a paper in Feedback Studio. This article overall explains managing and utilizing the Rubrics/Gra20255Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:43:23 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20250 *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 a20250Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:38:14 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20248 ** More information on how to provide feedback and grading can be found on the GROK article Giving Feedback with Turnitin GradeMarks and at Turnitin.com Once students submit files into a Turnitin assignment, instructors can access them through the assignment and view the submitted 20248Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:31:43 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20245 If your instructor has created a Turnitin assignment within a Moodle course, as a student you will be able to submit your assignment once the Start date has arrived. Submit a Turnitin Assignment Select the Turnitin Assignment link from your course page in Moodle. It has the Tu20245Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:59:01 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20244 Turnitin GradeMark The Turnitin GradeMark features discussed in this article include the Instructor Feedback Layer, QuickMarks, Feedback Studio, Inline Comments, and Strikethrough. Markup and Score a Student Paper Open Feedback Studio - Open Feedback Studio from a specif20244Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:54:05 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20243 *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 20243Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:35:22 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20225 Description The Moodle Book resource presents text, images, and multimedia in a series of pages that are grouped as “chapters,” which provides a useful way to organize important information for students. For example, the book can house lecture notes or videos, multi-page study materi20225Tue, 02 Jul 2024 16:49:02 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20217 The book module enables a teacher to create a multi-page resource in a book-like format, with chapters and subchapters. Books can contain media files as well as text and are useful for displaying lengthy passages of information which can be broken down into sections. A book may be used to display r20217Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:41:53 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20208 Instructors must manually grade some question types in a quiz activity. For example, essay questions cannot be auto-graded by Moodle and require a grader to input a grade. Manual grading is also an opportunity to provide timely and helpful feedback to students in the feedback area on the grading sc20208Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:34:09 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20207 Viewing Quiz Results and Review Options Quiz Results (Instructors and Administrators) After students complete a quiz attempt, instructors and administrators can view the results in a report that displays information about these attempts. For example, you can see the user information, when20207Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:18:24 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20204 Moodle Forums can be graded through whole forum grading or a process called rating . Whole forum grading is a new Moodle feature that allows instructors to assess student forum postings from a grading interface that collects all student postings and displays them on one page. Ratings are selecte20204Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:21:51 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20202 The Moodle Assignment activity allows students to upload their work as a file or type directly into the text editor. To Submit an Assignment: On the course page, click on the assignment title. On the assignment summary page, click Add submission . On the submissio20202Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:24:05 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20201 There are a few ways to grade an assignment: by individual submission, through the assignment screen, and through the gradebook. There are a few different ways to reach the grading screen and to grade the submissions. This article covers the following topics. Click on a link to jump to that topic: 20201Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:20:38 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20200 When an Assignment activity is added to a course, Moodle will automatically place a grade item for that assignment in the Gradebook. This grade item will appear as a column in the gradebook spreadsheet. To Add an Assignment: Log on to Moodle and select the course. Click 20200Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:54:44 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20199 Description A Moodle page resource creates a link to a screen that displays the content created by the teacher. The text editor allows the page to display many different kinds of content such as plain text, images, audio, video, embedded code or a combination of all these. In certain cases it 20199Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:48:28 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20198 A URL (Uniform or Universal Resource Locator) is a link on the internet to a website or online file. Instructors can use the URL resource to provide their students with web links for research, saving the student time and effort in manually typing out the address. The URLS can be displayed in variou20198Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:19:45 GMT