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Use Ratings to Grade Individual Forum Posts

When you use the Ratings feature to grade individual form posts, a column for the forum activity is added to the Moodle gradebook. You can then grade each student's post individually, and the grades will be aggregated in the gradebook.

Instructions for enabling Ratings and for grading a forum post are below.

Enable Ratings

  1. In the forum settings, under Ratings, click the Aggregate type down arrow and select the desired option.

    Aggregate type
  2. Specify the remaining Ratings settings as desired.

Grade a Forum Post

To grade a student's forum post, click the rating drop-down menu at the bottom of the post and select the desired value.

Rating Down Arrow