https://grok.lsu.edu/Updated Activities & Resources articles!60https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20186 General Information There are two types of Forums in the LSU instance of Moodle, (1) Announcements , and (2) the Forum . Forum Types 1. Announcements The Announcements can be created by adding the Latest News block. The link to the Announcements is initially plac20186 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:51:28 GMTTue, 14 Apr 2026 10:51:28 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18578 Instructors can change the settings in Moodle Mail to restrict students from sending email to other users in a course. If this is disabled, students will not see the Moodle Mail block in their course or the Moodle Mail icon on the My Courses course card. Students can still contact other users and i18578 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:30:18 GMTFri, 10 Apr 2026 15:30:18 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 h20321 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:05:25 GMTFri, 10 Apr 2026 15:05:25 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: 20201 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:20:38 GMTFri, 30 Jan 2026 16:20:38 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 the20547 Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:48:04 GMTTue, 30 Sep 2025 07:48:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=19276 For instructions on how to add an IMS Content Package to your course, view Moodle: Activities & Resources: Add an IMS Content Package General Settings: Designate a name or title for the IMS Content package, enter a description (optional), and decide if you want the description display19276 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:51:54 GMTMon, 28 Jul 2025 09:51:54 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 Tu20245 Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:59:01 GMTMon, 07 Jul 2025 15:59:01 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=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 a20354 Wed, 28 May 2025 14:57:07 GMTWed, 28 May 2025 14:57:07 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 e20348 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:55:51 GMTMon, 03 Mar 2025 15:55:51 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 20286 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:42:26 GMTWed, 12 Feb 2025 15:42:26 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 submissions20296 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:52:07 GMTWed, 12 Feb 2025 10:52:07 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 20200 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:54:44 GMTFri, 30 Aug 2024 09:54:44 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 ignor20337 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:50:09 GMTFri, 12 Jul 2024 10:50:09 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 materi20225 Tue, 02 Jul 2024 16:49:02 GMTTue, 02 Jul 2024 16:49:02 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20040 Deleting a link to an activity will remove the activity from your course. If the activity was a graded assignment, such as a Quiz or Upload File Assignment, its column of grades in the Gradebook will also be deleted. In the case of an Upload File Assignment, the students' uploaded documents will be20040 Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:04:55 GMTTue, 02 Jul 2024 11:04:55 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 20243 Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:35:22 GMTTue, 11 Jun 2024 11:35:22 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=19759 Instructors can affect grades for a workshop activity in Moodle during the assessment and grading evaluation phases. During the Assessment phase, instructors can provide their own assessments of student submission or of student assessments, with a selected weight. During the Grading evaluation p19759 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:18:32 GMTFri, 07 Jun 2024 12:18:32 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20055 The Research Help Activity connects students with librarian assistance. To Add the Research Help Activity: Login to Moodle and select your course. In the course section where you would like to display Macmillan Learning Tools activity, click on Create 20055 Wed, 08 May 2024 10:32:25 GMTWed, 08 May 2024 10:32:25 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20030 The Moodle Workshop is a peer review activity in which students can assess their classmates' work. The quality of both the students' assessments and their original submissions are graded by the instructor. The workshop activity guides students through the process in phases that the instructor mus20030 Tue, 07 May 2024 15:14:53 GMTTue, 07 May 2024 15:14:53 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20034 The custom certificate allows an instructor to distribute a certificate to students upon completion of an activity, module, course, etc. The certificate is a PDF, and can be customized per student automatically. There are two steps you must complete: Add the certificate activity to the cou20034 Mon, 06 May 2024 15:06:52 GMTMon, 06 May 2024 15:06:52 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 blo20322 Mon, 06 May 2024 12:28:32 GMTMon, 06 May 2024 12:28:32 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 M20336 Wed, 01 May 2024 13:28:55 GMTWed, 01 May 2024 13:28:55 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 the20331 Wed, 01 May 2024 13:25:32 GMTWed, 01 May 2024 13:25:32 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 embe20333 Wed, 01 May 2024 13:19:46 GMTWed, 01 May 2024 13:19:46 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 select20335 Wed, 01 May 2024 13:14:02 GMTWed, 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 choi20334 Wed, 01 May 2024 12:36:54 GMTWed, 01 May 2024 12:36:54 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20182 Description Turnitin Feedback Studio is a feedback and plagiarism detection tool in Moodle that helps to improve writing and engages students in the feedback process. Students can only use Turnitin if an instructor creates a Turnitin assignment in a Moodle course. This assignment type20182 Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:37:11 GMTTue, 30 Apr 2024 14:37:11 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20046 A SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) package is a collection of files which are packaged according to an agreed standard for learning objects. The SCORM activity module enables SCORM or AICC packages to be uploaded as a zip file and added to a course. For instructions on adding a SCORM20046 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:03:10 GMTFri, 26 Apr 2024 14:03:10 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20045 A SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) package is a collection of files which are packaged according to an agreed standard for learning objects. The SCORM activity module enables SCORM or AICC packages to be uploaded as a zip file and added to a course. To Add a SCORM Package Activi20045 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:10:07 GMTFri, 26 Apr 2024 13:10:07 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 a20250 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:38:14 GMTWed, 24 Apr 2024 14:38:14 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20051 An IMS (Instructional Management System) content package is a collection of files that can be used to deliver multimedia content and animation. Content packages are uploaded as .zip files and then added to the course. To Add an IMS Content Package: Login to Moodle and select the d20051 Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:16:24 GMTFri, 05 Apr 2024 13:16:24 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. T20524 Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:10:56 GMTFri, 05 Apr 2024 12:10:56 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 specif20244 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:54:05 GMTWed, 03 Apr 2024 10:54:05 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20028 A workshop is an activity in which students can assess each others' submissions before an optional final assessment by the instructor. The settings for this activity determine several factors: when phases begin and end, how each phase is graded, submission and assessment requirements, and so on. Th20028 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:30:59 GMTTue, 02 Apr 2024 16:30:59 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 fo20520 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:07:25 GMTMon, 01 Apr 2024 11:07:25 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=19726 Once you have added Lightbox Gallery to your Moodle course, you can then add images. If you have not yet created a Lightbox Gallery, refer to GROK 20072, Activities & Resources: Add a Lightbox Gallery . Adding Images to Lightbox Gallery Click the title of the Lightbox Galler19726 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:02:53 GMTThu, 28 Mar 2024 13:02:53 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20032 The Moodle Book resource is a multi-page resource that displays information 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 that can be broken down into sections. A book may be used t20032 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:22:53 GMTWed, 27 Mar 2024 12:22:53 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 r20217 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:41:53 GMTWed, 27 Mar 2024 11:41:53 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/Gra20255 Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:43:23 GMTTue, 26 Mar 2024 13:43:23 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 20248 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:31:43 GMTMon, 25 Mar 2024 12:31:43 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 20332 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:54:24 GMTWed, 06 Mar 2024 11:54:24 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 s20346 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:38:57 GMTFri, 01 Mar 2024 10:38:57 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20158 The Overrides setting provides instructors with the ability to allow for student accommodations and increased time allotments for specific users in their Moodle course. If instructors need to add the same accommodation to multiple students, they can either do so individually for each student or a20158 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:32:21 GMTFri, 01 Mar 2024 10:32:21 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20188 Please note: Documentation is in progress for this article. Please check back periodically for updated information. Communication in an online course is important for ensuring frequent instructor-to-student and student-to-student interaction. These interactions are integral in the online l20188 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:27:34 GMTFri, 01 Mar 2024 10:27:34 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 selecte20204 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:21:51 GMTFri, 01 Mar 2024 10:21:51 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20190 Instructors can create their quiz questions directly in the Question Bank before creating a Quiz. One may want to do this if they would like the questions added for the entire course before they create their quizzes. Important Note : Quiz Categories should be created before creating Quiz20190 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:36:35 GMTFri, 01 Mar 2024 07:36:35 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 variou20198 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:19:45 GMTWed, 28 Feb 2024 12:19:45 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, studen20284 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:56:45 GMTWed, 28 Feb 2024 11:56:45 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, studen20285 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:53:36 GMTWed, 28 Feb 2024 11:53:36 GMT