Cross-enrollment lets LSU faculty and departments combine students from different participating campuses into a single online teaching space while each student remains officially registered to their home campus. It is a Moodle configuration rather than a change to how students register. Students continue to enroll through their normal path, and then those separate course populations are given access to one shared Moodle course site where all teaching takes place.
Cross-enrollment is optional and can be decided term by term. Departments and instructors typically choose it when they want to streamline teaching and maintain a consistent course.
If you only need to combine sections within the same campus and term (such as two LSU A&M sections taught by the same instructor), use the Crosslist & Split tool instead of cross- enrollment: Moodle: Crosslist & Split (GROK 20173).
Cross-enrollment options
There are now two distinct cross-enrollment paths, depending on where the final teaching course will live:
- Cross-enroll within LSU Moodle (LSU A&M web-based and LSU Online courses)
- Cross-enroll from LSU A&M or LSU Online into the CE Moodle site
The sections below summarize when and how to use each method and link out to detailed GROK articles.
Cross-enroll within LSU Moodle (LSU A&M and LSU Online)
The Cross-enroll tool in Moodle allows primary course instructors to combine LSU A&M web-based sections and LSU Online sections that share the same calendar period into a new Moodle teaching course. This is a self-service process that runs entirely within LSU Moodle and does not require a ticket.
The tool creates one new Moodle course that contains all selected sections and enrolls all students directly into that course. When the original term-based shells do not contain additional content, grades, or students, those shells are deleted as part of the process. Instructors then work only in the new teaching course.
Because all students are enrolled directly in a single teaching course:
- Automated Academic Engagement Activity (AEA) reporting works for all student groups in that course.
- Grades can be managed and posted from the new course without extra export and import steps.
For full details on eligibility, how to use the tool found on the Moodle home page, what happens to the original shells, and how to undo cross-enrollment, see:
Moodle: Cross-Enroll Within LSU Moodle (GROK 20701)
Cross-enroll into the CE Moodle site (Continuing Education)
When the teaching course will be hosted in the CE Moodle site, the new Cross-enroll tool in LSU Moodle is not used. These cross-enrollments continue to follow the existing ticket-based process documented in:
Moodle: Cross-enrollment (external) (GROK 20544)
In this scenario, LSU A&M or LSU Online students are cross-enrolled into a CE Moodle course. The CE course becomes the teaching course where content is built and maintained. The original LSU Moodle shells act as source shells and support enrollment, grading, and participation reporting back to the home campus.
Because this workflow bridges separate Moodle environments, grade posting and AEA reporting for the external student groups still require additional steps, as described in the GROK 20544 article. Instructors and departments who routinely cross-enroll into CE should continue to follow that article.
Reporting grades and participation
For cross-enrolled courses that use the new Cross-enroll tool within LSU Moodle, AEA reporting and grade posting are handled directly from the single teaching course. No extra export and import steps are required for different student groups.
For cross-enrolled courses that use the CE cross-enrollment process, there may still be separate considerations for posting grades and verifying participation for campus students and CE students. Those details are maintained in the external cross-enrollment GROK article and in related Workday and AEA documentation.
Support
For help planning or troubleshooting cross-enrollment, or for questions about which process to use:
- Review the relevant GROK article for your scenario.
- Contact the Faculty Technology Center (FTC) for one-on-one support, training opportunities, and current best practices related to cross-enrollment, AEA, and grading.