Blocks by Aulasneo — User Manual

Welcome to the official user manual for Blocks by Aulasneo, a hosted platform for adding AI-powered and graded learning activities to your LMS through the LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage standard — without writing code or maintaining your own tool server.

Blocks lets you connect Moodle, Open edX, Canvas, Blackboard, or D2L to a shared workspace where you create AI tutors, AI expert chats, multiple-choice and free-text assignments, knowledge bases, and more. Instructors add and author these activities directly from their LMS, while your team manages platforms, AI knowledge, billing, and usage from one place.

Getting Started

• Introduction
  • What is Blocks by Aulasneo?
  • Why LTI 1.3?
  • Key Concepts
  • The Roles Involved
  • How It Fits Together
• Requirements
  • Before you begin
  • LMS requirements
  • What you do not need
  • Account and plan limits
• Creating Your Account
  • Registering a workspace
  • Verifying your email
  • Signing in
  • Inviting others
• Quick Start
  • Overview
  • Step 1: Create your workspace
  • Step 2: Register your LMS
  • Step 3: Add an activity with Deep Linking
  • Step 4: Author and launch
• The Workspace
  • Navigation
  • Switching context

Connecting Your LMS

• Connecting Your LMS
  • The building blocks of a connection
  • The two directions of trust
  • Tool endpoints Blocks provides
  • The record-first workflow
  • Connecting Zoom
  • Plan limits
• Connecting Open edX
  • Before you start
  • Step 1: Create the platform in Blocks
  • Step 2: Register Blocks in Open edX
  • Step 3: Complete the registration in Blocks
  • Step 4: Add an activity to a course
  • Troubleshooting
• Connecting Moodle
  • Step 1: Create the platform in Blocks
  • Step 2: Copy the dynamic registration URL
  • Step 3: Register in Moodle
  • Manual registration (fallback)
  • Step 4: Add an activity to a course
  • Troubleshooting
• Blocks for Zoom
  • How the integration works
  • Adding the app
  • Usage
  • Removing the app
  • Troubleshooting

Authoring Activities

• Adding Activities (Deep Linking)
  • When Deep Linking happens
  • The selection flow
  • What gets created
  • After Deep Linking
• Editing Activities In Place
  • The instructor view
  • Editing and publishing
  • Import and export
  • Rich text and math
  • Localization

Tools

• Tools Overview
  • Available tools
  • What every tool shares
  • Graded vs. non-graded
• AI Tutor
  • Authoring an AI Tutor
  • The learner experience
  • Tips
• AI Expert Chat
  • Before you start
  • Authoring an AI Expert Chat
  • The learner experience
  • Tips
• Multiple Choice
  • Authoring a Multiple Choice activity
  • The learner experience
  • The instructor view
• Free Text
  • Authoring a Free Text assignment
  • AI-assisted authoring
  • AI grading
  • AI submission-likelihood scoring
  • The learner experience
  • Instructor review and grading

AI Knowledge

• Knowledge Bases
  • Creating a knowledge base
  • Adding sources
  • Processing and syncing
  • Using a knowledge base in a tool
  • Plan limits and credits

Account & Administration

• Team & Access
  • Roles
  • Inviting members
  • Managing members
• Billing & Credits
  • The billing marketplace
  • Choosing or changing a plan
  • Plan limits and create actions
  • How credits work
  • Credit packs
  • Subscription status
• Usage Reports
  • Student AI usage
  • Using the report
  • Why it matters

Quick Links

• Introduction

• Quick Start

• Connecting Open edX

• Knowledge Bases

• Billing & Credits

• Aulasneo Website