I am totally stuck. I want to grade participation. It's very simple. We have a set of discussions and I would like to give one point per post. I cannot figure out how to do this to save my life!
I set it up to be either count of ratings or sum of ratings and give it a value of one (because I don't want to judge the quality of the post). On the grade sheet, if someone has ten posts in one discussion thread, their maximum grade is one.
I just want to know how many posts each student made. Can anyone think of a simple way to do that? It would be a bonus if that showed up in the Participation category which contains a set of discussions.
Here is an example of how I would like to score Class Participation:
Student Mary:
Lesson 1 discussion question- 1 posts
Lesson 2 discussion question- 5 posts
Lesson 3 discussion question- 3 posts
Lesson 4 discussion question- 5 posts
Lesson 5 discussion question- 4 posts
Lesson 6 discussion question- 2 posts
Lesson 7 discussion question- 1 posts
Lesson 8 discussion question- 5 posts
Lesson 9 discussion question- 3 posts
Lesson 10 discussion question- 5 posts
Total Posts: 34
Total Posts required for full credit: 50
Participation Score: 68%
You may be able to get the required info in a more or less the format you need from the 'Participation Report' (in Reports). In this report, if you choose the module activity 'your-forum' and show only 'student' and show actions 'post' (and if the report works properly) it will display a list of the students who posted in the forum and the number of their posts. You cannot download the list but you should be able to copy/paste it into excel and with the help of some Excel formulas create csv list which you can import into the gradebook.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for your idea!