https://grok.lsu.edu/New Moodle 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=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 d20701Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:47:23 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 d20701Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:47:23 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=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.20691Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:55:27 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.20691Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:55:27 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 "(W20688Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:29:52 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 "(W20688Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:29:52 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=20682 In some LSU Moodle courses, exams are administered through a third-party publisher site. This means that students take exams in the publisher site and not in the Moodle site with a quiz activity. Most third-party tools are added to Moodle as an LTI external tool . The most commonly used publishe20682Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:31:52 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20678 The Enrollment Tracker in a course is a report showing students who have added and dropped the course. In addition to the students' names, the report also displays the students' email address, section number, enrollment status (enrolled or unenrolled), and the dates and times the course was added20678Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:13:43 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20675 The WDS Post Grades block in LSU Moodle allows instructors to post course grades directly from Moodle to Workday Student (WDS). Like the previous Post Grades block, this function supports both interim (midterm) and final grade submissions. The WDS Post Grades block is automatically added to the20675Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:13:30 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20675 The WDS Post Grades block in LSU Moodle allows instructors to post course grades directly from Moodle to Workday Student (WDS). Like the previous Post Grades block, this function supports both interim (midterm) and final grade submissions. The WDS Post Grades block is automatically added to the20675Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:13:30 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20664 Cross-listing allows an instructor of record to create a single Moodle course that combines multiple courses that they are teaching (e.g., ENGL 1001 / LING 1001). Students in different courses and sections will be enrolled as different groups in the single Moodle course. Final grades will be submit20664Wed, 21 May 2025 13:16:57 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20663 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 tea20663Sun, 18 May 2025 23:29:43 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20663 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 tea20663Sun, 18 May 2025 23:29:43 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, ensur20662Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:56:04 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, ensur20662Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:56:04 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 w20661Mon, 19 May 2025 09:35:09 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=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. Overvi20629Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:13:46 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=20592 Download course content allows Moodle Files, Folders, Pages, and Labels to be fully downloaded in a zip file. For all other activities and resources only the activity name and the description would be part of the download file. This feature must be enabled at the site level before the activity leve20592Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:02:14 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20592 Download course content allows Moodle Files, Folders, Pages, and Labels to be fully downloaded in a zip file. For all other activities and resources only the activity name and the description would be part of the download file. This feature must be enabled at the site level before the activity leve20592Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:02:14 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=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=20589 *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 l20589Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:59:44 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20586 The Course File Size tool assists in monitoring and managing the total file size of courses to ensure system stability and optimal performance. The display, visible only to instructors, shows the total size of all items in the course. Importance of Managing Course File Sizes Effective man20586Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:37:53 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20586 The Course File Size tool assists in monitoring and managing the total file size of courses to ensure system stability and optimal performance. The display, visible only to instructors, shows the total size of all items in the course. Importance of Managing Course File Sizes Effective man20586Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:37:53 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20586 The Course File Size tool assists in monitoring and managing the total file size of courses to ensure system stability and optimal performance. The display, visible only to instructors, shows the total size of all items in the course. Importance of Managing Course File Sizes Effective man20586Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:37:53 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=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=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=20564 **PLEASE NOTE: We recommend that all ProctorU sessions are created through the Moodle 1.3 External Tool for exams administered as a Moodle quiz activity in the LSU Moodle site (moodle.lsu.edu). If you have previously created exam sessions on the ProctorU site (proctoru.com) in LSU Moodle20564Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:59:56 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20563 This page contains overview information about using ProctorU online proctoring services for LSU campus and LSU Online courses. This service allows students to complete course exams at any location while still ensuring the academic integrity of the exam for the institution. Using a webcam and audio 20563Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:35:07 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=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=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=20559 Starting in summer 2023 and moving forward, the LSU Online Moodle site ( lsuonline.moodle.lsu.edu ) will be integrated with the LSU campus Moodle site ( moodle.lsu.edu ). This is part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of Moodle sites where faculty, staff, and students instruct and take cour20559Tue, 09 Jan 2024 15:12:01 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=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 GMT