Moodle 2.0

Chapter 8
Ratings
You can give students the ability to rate glossary entries, just like they can rate
forum postings. The question is, what do you want students to rate? The glossary
entry's clarity? Its helpfulness? Your writing skill in creating the entry? You'll need to
consider what you want students to rate, and create a custom scale that supports this
rating. You determine who can rate glossary entries, and what scale to use, on the
Settings page, as shown in the following screenshot:
In the preceding screenshot, the course creator is applying a custom scale called
Helpful Memorizing to the glossary. This custom scale was created before the
Teacher came to this page.
After creating a custom scale, the Teacher went to the glossary's Settings page, as
shown in the preceding screenshot, and selected it under Scale.
Notice that only the course Manager, Teachers, and Non-editing Teachers can
rate the entries in this glossary. The next step is for the Teacher to modify the
permissions, to allow students to rate entries.
This three-part process is covered in the following subsections.
Allowing students to rate glossary entries:
Allowing students to rate glossary entries consists of a three-part process:
1. Create the rating scale
2. Select the scale for the glossary
3. Give students permission to use ratings
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