Glossary

Hi, Jason. I had a similar misunderstanding with the way ratings worked when I first started using Moodle and set up my first forums. Ratings for forums and glossaries work on an averaging principle, not an aggregate principle. For the forums, this means you need to track user replies separately within the forum (if you require more than one reply to a discussion) or through user profiles. For glossaries, this means you need to track through the show entries by author option and tally them separately in a new graded column that you set up in the grade book. See attached pic. For these types of assignments, I usually find that the tab option in Firefox is handy so that I can flip between the two screens pretty easily and quickly. If your Moodle grade book is your only grade book, then I would turn off the rating in the glossary so that there is no extra point showing up in the grade book.

You could also set ratings at 4 and only rate one of the entries once the four have been entered, but that might confuse students. "Why did I get a four on this one and nothing on the others?" It would also then be imperative that you remember it is averaged, so if you allow late entries and rate the late entry at four after having already given the student a 3, it will show up as a 3.5 in the grade book. Hope this is making sense. Good luck!