https://grok.lsu.edu/New GROK 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=20699 On Windows 11, some users get the message “Can’t connect to this network” immediately after entering in their credentials and click Connect on eduroam. Furthermore, the icon for the eduroam wireless network looks like this: o To Resolve "Can't Connect to This Network" 20699Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:29:45 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20696 General Information ArcGIS is most commonly used for those who depend on accurate geographic information in decision making. ArcGIS allows for easy collaboration and the ability to author data, maps, globes, and models on the desktop to serve them out for use on a desktop, browser, o20696Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:58:05 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=20690 Zoom's AI Companion acts as your personal Zoom assistant. It can assist with: Searching meetings, chats, emails, or files using keywords, attendees, or dates Summarizing or answering questions about meetings, chats, emails, or files Preparing for upcoming meetings with relevant m20690Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:51:31 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=20687 In some instances, students find that they are unable to correctly embed and submit their Panopto assignments within Moodle. The videos actually do successfully appear in the instructor's Panopto assignment folder, but they do not appear correctly within Moodle. This article will walk you through a20687Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:43:17 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=20679 MS Teams Collaboration Microsoft Teams Overview Making A Team The purpose of this article is to outline the available features for collaborating with LSU users and guests using Microsoft Teams. Below you will find a descr8iption of Teams Channels, Permissio20679Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:03:34 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=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=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=20652 Sometimes users may find that remotely connecting to a PC quite difficult. The steps listed below show how to connect, and configure, their PC so that remote desktop will be accessible. Make sure that you are the Local Admin on the machine. NOTE : Off-campus connections will require VPN to se20652Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:29:11 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=20640 Start a live transcription When you record a meeting, transcription starts automatically. To start a live transcription only: Select More actions in your meeting controls. Select Record and transcribe > Start transcription Confirm the language everyone is speaki20640Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:11:57 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20639 Start recording In a Teams meeting, one person can record at a time. When you start recording a meeting, everyone will be notified automatically. You can also turn on live transcriptions and view them during the meeting. To start a meeting recording: Start or join the meeting. 20639Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:37:09 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=20625 Signing in with a Microsoft Account: 1. Click the Start button at the bottom left of your screen. 2. On the start menu, select Settings . 3. Once the Settings screen appears, choose Accounts . 4. On the accounts screen, select Sign in 20625Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:09:39 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20624 Network Reset can solve connection problems that might occur after upgrading versions or fix problems connecting to shared network drives. Reset removes all network adapters and adapter settings from your PC. After you restart your computer, any network adapters are reinstalled, and the settings re20624Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:52:30 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=20606 This article will guide you through the process of setting up your Gear To Geaux laptop. To Set Up your Gear To Geaux Windows laptop: Select the EDUROAM network in the list. Enter your full LSU email address and password and click Continue . 20606Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:56:35 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20604 This article will guide you through the process of setting up your Gear To Geaux macOS laptop. To Set Up your Gear To Geaux Mac laptop: Select A Language and click the Next Arrow. Select A Country and click Continue . For the Accessibility screen, s20604Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:26:09 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20601 Note: To avoid liability for errors on your documents, ITS cannot adjust these for you. You are free to walk through these steps or come to the Service Desk for assistance doing so. Dimensions we print at are as follows: Tabloid/ledger (11 x 17), Letter (8.5 x 11), and for long20601Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:32:24 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20600 General Information KMail is a mail client for the Linux Operating system. Below are the instructions on how to set up KMail for an LSUMail Account. KMail can be used with Modern Authentication for use on and off-campus. Due to Conditional Access rules, we suggest using the kmail-ews 20600Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:47:30 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20598 **NOTICE: Due to the merger of Echo360 and Turning, the information in this article may be undergoing revision. We recommend visiting the PointSolutions Support and Resources page for the latest updates. 20598Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:37:53 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20597 General Information KMail is a simple mail application that comes pre-installed on Red Hat Linux and other Linux operating systems. In addition to handling e-mail, KMail is also useful for organizing events with its built in Calendar and Contact Manager. Pre-Installation Notes 20597Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:21:27 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=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=20588 *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 ava20588Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:40:44 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=20583 NOTE If you are using a mobile device to access the myLSU portal, you may need to rotate your phone to landscape mode to access the menu. 20583Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:16:34 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20582 Summary: This article shows you the step-by-step process of how to send a print job from your Windows laptop to one of the LSU Public Access computer lab print servers via LSU's Wireless Network. Anyone with a valid PAWS ID and a Tiger Card can print documents remotely to any of the LSU20582Mon, 01 Apr 2024 08:13:12 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20581 Concord Cloud Faxing uses email to fax delivery and fax to email reception instead of legacy fax machines. Please use the ITS Service Portal to request New Fax Service or Modify Fax Service . As part of this fax service, ITS will set up a Secondary Account “fax-225xxxxxxx@l20581Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:25:29 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20574 Closed Captioning can be enabled in Teams during a meeting with several settings and features available. A host may also enable transcription during the meeting. To Enable Closed Captioning in Teams: Open Teams and log in with your myLSU credentials. In the meeting, c20574Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:07:13 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20573 Closed Captioning can be enabled in Zoom during a meeting, and there are several options for managing caption appearances and features. To Enable Closed Captioning in Zoom: Open Zoom and log in via SSO with your myLSU credentials . After you have joined the meeting, c20573Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:58:50 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20571 NOTE If you are using a mobile device to access the myLSU portal, you may need to rotate your phone to landscape mode to access the menu. General Information If a student is curious about what classes are available for the semester and would just like to browse, 20571Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:26:20 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20570 Due to Microsoft’s updated cloud storage model, LSU is optimizing the use of Microsoft 365 (M365) services to remain within Microsoft’s new storage allocation limits and preserve capacity for our academic, research, and administrative needs. The new policy creates an Archive Mailbox where 20570Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:55:19 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=20569 For Emergencies, dial 911 For LSU PD Dispatch, Dial 8-3231 on-campus or 578-3231 from a mobile device On-Campus Calling LSU Prefixes: 578 & 334 Dial 8 then the four-digit number or 4 then the four-digit number. (Example: 8-1234 or 4-1234) 20569Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:34:11 GMT