Getting Ratings to Add Rather than Average in Gradebook

Getting Ratings to Add Rather than Average in Gradebook

by Jeffrey Borrowdale -
Number of replies: 2
I want to give credit for a certain minimum number of posts to the forum per week. So, I assigned a "1" to every post that was on topic and had something significant to say and a "0" for those that didn't qualify ("me, too" posts, "When's the next test?", off-topic posts, etc.). I limted ratings to that week and set the "maximum grade" to "1" in the gradebook.

The problem is that instead of simply giving me the total number of ratings points, the grade book is averaging them. This means that people who got "0" on one or more posts have weird fractions as their grade.

Is there a simple way to have the gradebook add up the ratings points? The only solution I see at this point is tallying by hand with a calendar. Is there a better way to count posts?

Jeffrey Borrowdale
Professor of Philosophy & Religion/Faculty Webmaster
Lane Community College
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Re: Getting Ratings to Add Rather than Average in Gradebook

by Michael Penney -
Hi Jeffrey, actually it is the forum module that is averaging the points, the gradebook just displays the grade total the forum sends it. There is discussion over in forum about how to change this (IIRC it requires a minor change to the code).