3.1.5 Using ratings in forums

Go to your practice area available to you where you have Teacher role (you should have at least one Teacher and two Student accounts in the same course for this activity!) and:

1. Add a Forum for peer grading

2. Enabling students to rate posts (refer to instruction!)

3. Choose the Average of ratings as aggregate type

4. Choose 100 as the highest from the scale drop-down list 

5. Log out as Teacher and login to the same course with the first test Student account

6. Go to the forum you added and Add a new discussion topic and post a message 

7. Remember! You cannot rate your own posting! Therefore, log out and login with your second Student account

8. Go to the forum and click the post you recently sent

9. As the Student roles have already been given permission to rate in the forum in step 2 above :-) you should see the rating option at the bottom of the posting

10. Choose 80 from scale

11. Next to the Average of ratings, you should now see (1)

12. When you click (1) you should have a pop-up window showing that you have already rated this post and given 80 

 Optional:

13. Login as Teacher and repeat steps 8, 9, and 10 but give a different mark this time e.g. 90 from the scale

14.  Next to the Average of ratings, you should now see (2) now!

15. When you click (2) you should have the same pop-up window showing the two marks, 80 and 90 

16. As you are logged in as Teacher, you can also go to Gradebook and see the grade for the student, which should be average of ratings, 85!