{"id":51,"date":"2007-07-24T18:53:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T18:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=51"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:23:55","slug":"moodle-students-rating-forum-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/moodle-students-rating-forum-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle: Students rating forum posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moodle.org\/pix\/moodlelogo.gif?w=648\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"12\"\/>One of the most useful features in Moodle, apparently enabled by default in 1.7, is the ability for students to rate forum posts, using any &#8220;scale&#8221; developed by the instructor. My students rate forum posts using a scale that includes choices like these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Question<\/li>\n<li>Informational Statement<\/li>\n<li>Reflection on Material<\/li>\n<li>Engages Others<\/li>\n<li>Adds to Understanding<\/li>\n<li>Uses Class Resources<\/li>\n<li>Late Post<\/li>\n<li>Off Topic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can thus engage in a discussion of what makes a meaningful contribution to a forum, as well as the topic for the week.<\/p>\n<p>In Moodle 1.7, this was just a matter of a checkbox called &#8220;Use ratings&#8221; in the updating of a Forum. In 1.8, the establishment of user &#8220;roles&#8221; means that the setting must be enabled as a Permission for a Student role. The &#8220;rate post&#8221; feature thus cannot be enabled by a Teacher unless the Administrator has enabled it in the Teacher role to override settings *and* specifically override settings for students (see Using Moodle forum: <a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/discuss.php?d=72179\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/discuss.php?d=72179<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>This was designed to make it easier to customize access and use, but it sure is cumbersome. Without getting the setting changed, only Teachers can rate posts, and they may not be able to see that students can&#8217;t do it anymore if they&#8217;re accustomed to Moodle 1.7. And it took me awhile with Moodle documentation to figure out that overriding the Student role can be done at the course level, so long as Teachers are permitted to do it. Because Teachers can also override Student roles (if permitted) for <i>each forum<\/i>, I thought at first I&#8217;d have to do this for all 16 forums in each of 3 courses (you do the math).\n<\/p>\n<p>But really, it&#8217;s worth it to get your Admin to enable this permission if you&#8217;re a teacher in Moodle. The pedagogical opportunities of students rating each others&#8217; posts (and yours!) are too cool to pass up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most useful features in Moodle, apparently enabled by default in 1.7, is the ability for students to rate forum posts, using any &#8220;scale&#8221; developed by the instructor. My students rate forum posts using a scale that includes choices like these: Open Question Informational Statement Reflection on Material Engages Others Adds to Understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-how-to"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}