Moodle Tutorials: Setting up Whole Forum Grading

Setting up Forum Grading

You can turn on the forum grading interface to view all of a student's posts for review and to assign a grade.

 

1. Click on the "Edit settings" on the top right:

 

 

2. Choose Whole Forum Grading from the menu below and select a type. 

 

 

3. Make grading and communication selections after choosing your grading type. Here you can select to grade by points or scale. Selecting Points allows you to define a maximum and minimum number to pass. Selecting Scale allows you to select "Received/Not Received."

 

 

4. Click Save and return to course when you are done editing settings.

 

 

 

5. To begin grading, return to the main forum page and select Grade Users.

 

 

 

 

 

6. The forum grading interface contains all of a student's forum posts on left side of the screen, and their name, a grade entry field and communication option on the right side of the screen. Their forum posts will contain post titles, dates and their content. You can scroll through all the students by clicking the arrow, or search by name by clicking on the magnifying glass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Click Save to save grades after you have finished inputting all grades.