Since this might be of interest to other users, and in particular to Martin D's community hub plans, I thought I'd post my rough design here. I'd be grateful for any feedback.
I should say at this point that although I'd like to implement this for October, time is running out and it may not actually make it until our next scheduled release in February!
BTW I could post a little more detail on the MoodleDocs wiki, but I'm not clear where I should link things like this in - please let me know!
Thanks
Jenny
Functionality
For a course which has been set up to use ratings, through a block, the user can pick a value from a drop-down list and click a button "send my rating" to submit their rating. The block also displays the average of all ratings received so far and the number of ratings e.g 3 / 5 (2).
If a user has not yet rated the course, then the drop-down list will say "rate...". Otherwise it will display their current rating. If they amend and re-submit, the average rating will be updated, but the number of ratings does not change. No record of the first rating is retained.
The admin user, and teacher(s) for the course, can click on the current rating to see the list of who has rated the course and the score they gave. This information is not available to students.
If ratings have not been enabled for the course, the block displays a message and link "please enable ratings in the course settings" for teachers/admin and is invisible to users.
Editing interface
The course settings screen will have two new fields:
- a check box whether ratings are to be used or not.
- a drop-down list of numbers 1-100 for the scale to be used.
New table course_ratings
- id
- userid
- course
- time
- rating
- assessed (true/false)
- scale
Please feel free to post more detail here: