Using/Grading Forums
How to grade using whole forum grading
- Go into your course and for your forum, ensure whole forum grading is set up in the forum settings.
- Open the forum.
- Click on the Grade Users.
- On the left you should now see one students entire collection of forum postings (as well as responses) and on the right the students name and where to enter a grade. Enter the Grade on the right, and click the Next arrow (the black arrow pointing to the right) to view another students submission and mark.
- Once you have graded all students or you are finished select the Save button at the top.
- Click Close and now these grades will automatically input into the Moodle gradebook for your class.
Posting to a group forum
If you would like to post content to a group forum there are a few extra steps you have to take to ensure this works properly, you cannot post the way you would for all students/participants to see.
- Ensure this is a group forum by going to the forums settings and looking under the Common module setting to ensure the group mode is set to separate groups or visible groups.
- Click Add discussion topic
- Under your post select Advanced.
- Under the Heading that says Your new discussion topic, scroll down and check off the box next to post a copy to all groups
- Scroll down and select Post to forum
- Ensure this is a group forum by going to the forums settings and looking under the Common module setting to ensure the group mode is set to separate groups or visible groups.
- Click Add discussion topic
- Under your post select Advanced.
- Under the Heading that says Your new discussion topic, scroll down and to the right of where it says Groups from the drop-down, select which group you would like to pose the first question to (i.e. GroupA).
- Scroll down and select Post to forum.
- If you would like to add a different question for another group, repeat the process but for step #4, in the drop-down, select a different group this time (i.e. Group B).
- Scroll down and select Post to forum.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, when you are replying to a forum post to the right of the Submit and Cancel buttons under your message, check off the box next to Reply privately. However, while students will see your private message, they cannot reply back to it.
Go into your Forum and select Add discussion topic.
Once you click on your form, on the right hand side select Settings on the post you would like to star, pin or lock!
To pin a post: Any forum discussion that comes after this will appear under this pinned post.
To star a post: To favorite a post and this will move the discussion to the top of the discussion list, under any pinned posts.
To lock a post: Ensures no one can post to it anymore.
Yes, this is called the summary report! It pulls things from the forums such as the number of discussions posted, number of replies posted, word count and etcetera for each student.
- Go into your course, find your forum and click on it.
- At the top of the page click Reports
- From the drown menu select Summary report.