We are making the switch to Moodle this fall and are also preparing to provide additional useful services for faculty. One idea I had was to assist faculty in creating citation lists in the correct format by simply providing DOIs or PubMed IDs. With the help of Claude AI, I was able to create a Generico filter that can be provided with a list of DOIs or PubMed IDs and, using JavaScript on the client-side and the APIs provided by the DOI and PubMed Databases, creates a citation list.
Currently, you can just provide IDs and have the default format and citation formatting used by our university applied, or provide IDs and have the default format and citation formatting applied. The filters also accept a variety of variables to output different formats, formatting, or languages. Should an error occur, the bare minimum is to provide students with a list of DOI or PubMed links, with no error messages cluttering the course.
In the current form, this is more of an expert tool and nothing I see faculty use widely. Either with the help of an editor plugin or a separate activity type, I could see faculty provide citations to courses rather easily. I also feel like a plugin that would let faculty attach citations to regular activities would be helpful. If someone wants to tinker with the Generico filters, here are the links to the two filter bundles exported from our Moodle instance.