I would like to be able to rate posts to this forum. Is that something we might consider? (Or have we already considered and rejected that idea?)
Perhaps we could develop the rating scale ourselves.
Thanks,
Art
Rating could be dangereous. Especialy as this is a social forum.
What are we rating in particular? The valididity of their comments? Ideas?
As this is such an open slather area now, I see ratings as potentialy dangerous. At least in the technical forums we are rating the relevance or the value of technical fixes. Far easier to rate in my opinion.
Thoughts?
P.S. God forbid ratings are ever introduced on typing or spelling. I would be trashed on every post :D
What are we rating in particular? The valididity of their comments? Ideas?
As this is such an open slather area now, I see ratings as potentialy dangerous. At least in the technical forums we are rating the relevance or the value of technical fixes. Far easier to rate in my opinion.
Thoughts?
P.S. God forbid ratings are ever introduced on typing or spelling. I would be trashed on every post :D
Yes... But I was hoping for a scale with some very nice comments.
-- Art
I am puzzled. It seems to me that ratings are available. What do you see Art?
We could always develop another scale or remove them, depending on consensus.
We could always develop another scale or remove them, depending on consensus.
ratings are definatly off.
Francis, you are now running on a higher role to the rest of us. Would explain why you can see it and we cant
Francis, you are now running on a higher role to the rest of us. Would explain why you can see it and we cant
Ah, yes, the Moodler role didn't have the permission for forum ratings enabled.
I (or Frances) could have fixed it by changing the overrides for this forum, but I've changed it for the role and it's now applied over the whole site.
I (or Frances) could have fixed it by changing the overrides for this forum, but I've changed it for the role and it's now applied over the whole site.
Thank you.
There is not any way to share scales the way we can share glossaries, is there?
Maybe we could post some cool examples here - http://docs.moodle.org/en/Scales
This seems to me to be a reasonable way for a non-developer to contribute to the community. Could be fun, too.
Just a thought.
-- Art
I would be all for this idea as I would love to have a place where people can brainstorm viable, averagable scales that are rhetorically sophisticated, yet work the way they are supposed to work (will still make sense when averaged). I haven't exactly been able to come up with a good one, yet, on my own, but I bet we could as a group. 
In the meantime, in docs I'll share the ones that I've used that don't need to be averaged as they are meant to be mostly grade feedback from me in my courses. Oh, and I did come up with a mini averageable (oh the atrocity of English teachers making up words when they won't let anyone else do it) scale for an introductions forum so that no matter what someone picked, it would say something nice to the new person. I called it the "Affirmative Scale." It's very simple and almost not worth mentioning, except that I'd love it if we could build on it, and again, find a way to make it more sophisticated. 
In the meantime, in docs I'll share the ones that I've used that don't need to be averaged as they are meant to be mostly grade feedback from me in my courses. Oh, and I did come up with a mini averageable (oh the atrocity of English teachers making up words when they won't let anyone else do it) scale for an introductions forum so that no matter what someone picked, it would say something nice to the new person.
I like the English example. I, too, am waiting for a scale that can return "words" to the students and "points" to the gradebook!
off topic:
Where is the best place to learn to use media wiki? I am just not getting it. Maybe I need a video?
atw
off topic:
Where is the best place to learn to use media wiki? I am just not getting it. Maybe I need a video?
atw
This is the wikipedia article on writing wiki pages. You may still need a video.
I just don't understand roles yet I guess.