Forum ratings

Template:Forums Forum ratings allow users to evaluate posts in a forum.

How to use

If a user has mod/forum:rate ("Rate posts") = Allow in a forum context, the user will be able to rate posts in that forum (see below). Note that the predefined Teacher role has mod/forum:rate ("Rate posts") = Allow, while the predefined Student role has mod/forum:rate ("Rate posts") = Not set. As a result, only teachers are allowed to rate forum posts by default.

A user who is allowed to rate posts will see, at the end of each post (except, of course, for his own posts) a label "Rate this post" with a pulldown menu. The menu displays a scale that the forum creator selected in the Forum grade settings. The rating can become part of the Gradebook.

Teacher view of a previously rated student post

Tips and Tricks

• Not all your students are seeing stars? It is all about their browser settings, language and installed fonts.
  • If this is a problem, stick with the basics in you scale. Perhaps create a scale that uses Numbers and words.

See also

• Course level ratings
• Scales
• Grades