Moodle Plugins directory: Course ratings: Comments

Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 3:46 AM - José Chacín

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:46:05 GMT

by José Chacín.

Hello Marina!
Is there any way that I can bring that raiting and its functions emmbeded into a Joomla html addon?

Monday, 19 January 2026, 7:04 PM - Marina Glancy

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:04:47 GMT

by Marina Glancy.

Please remember to use bug tracker (link above)

Monday, 19 January 2026, 9:41 AM - Renato de Brito

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:41:58 GMT

by Renato de Brito.

Marina Glancy!!

I installed the plugin on Moodle version 4.5. For the "Edwiser" course format, the evaluation doesn't appear for the students!

Is there any solution?

Tks,

Tuesday, 4 November 2025, 2:53 AM - Marina Glancy

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:53:38 GMT

by Marina Glancy.

Please use bug tracker for reporting bugs (this issue has already been reported)

Tuesday, 4 November 2025, 2:50 AM - iacademycertifications iacademycertifications

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:50:22 GMT

by iacademycertifications iacademycertifications.

Error: “Call to undefined function tool_courserating\external_format_text()” on Moodle 5.1

After upgrading to Moodle 5.1, the Course Rating plugin may display the star ratings correctly but fail to load the reviews page, throwing the following exception:

Call to undefined function tool_courserating\external_format_text().

Cause:
In recent Moodle versions, the function external_format_text() still exists in the core file lib/externallib.php, but the plugin’s helper.php file runs inside the namespace tool_courserating.

Because of that, PHP tries to resolve the call as tool_courserating\external_format_text() instead of the global \external_format_text() function from the core library, which leads to the error.

Solution:
Edit the file /admin/tool/courserating/classes/helper.php and, just below the line
namespace tool_courserating;, add the following statement:

use function \external_format_text;

Optionally, for full compatibility with Moodle 5.1, you can also include:

global $CFG; require_once($CFG->libdir . '/externallib.php');

Then purge Moodle caches using the CLI command:
php admin/cli/purge_caches.php

After that, reload the course ratings page — reviews will now appear correctly alongside the star ratings.

The begining of the file helper.php should be in this way:
<?php
namespace tool_courserating;

defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();

use function \external_format_text;
use core_customfield\data_controller;
use core_customfield\field_controller;
use tool_courserating\external\stars_exporter;

// Carga explícita por compatibilidad con Moodle 5.1
global $CFG;
require_once($CFG->libdir . '/externallib.php');

/**
* Additional helper functions
*
* @package tool_courserating
* @copyright 2022 Marina Glancy * @license https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
*/
class helper {

Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 3:55 PM - Mac Dela Cruz

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:55:07 GMT

by Mac Dela Cruz.

Hi! I downloaded the plugins and uploaded it in our LMS. However, when I am using the Edwise course format, rating section/block is not showing. How can I address this?

Monday, 19 May 2025, 5:42 PM - Marina Glancy

Mon, 19 May 2025 09:42:20 GMT

by Marina Glancy.

Hello, this is a very good suggestion. Can you please create an issue on GitHub (bug tracker link above), so we keep the conversations in the correct place. Thank you.

Monday, 19 May 2025, 5:05 PM - Emilie Neufeind

Mon, 19 May 2025 09:05:09 GMT

by Emilie Neufeind.

Hello Marina,
We use and like your plugin
But we want improve our accessibility to our moodlesite.
For a further release, is it possible for you to add a better audio description for the stars, scoring and numbers of rates ?
Thanks a lot

Thursday, 20 February 2025, 7:27 PM - Marina Glancy

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:27:47 GMT

by Marina Glancy.

Please use the "Bug tracker" link above to report bugs and suggest improvements

Thursday, 20 February 2025, 7:20 PM - Luis Sanchez

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:20:35 GMT

by Luis Sanchez.

Hello. I´m using the Lambda theme with Moodle 4.3 and the course ratings doesn´t appear. Thank you.

Friday, 3 January 2025, 10:13 PM - Marina Glancy

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:13:17 GMT

by Marina Glancy.

Hello Andy! Please use github issues to submit an improvement request. There there could be a capability or a setting for the allowed interval when user can change their rating

Saturday, 21 December 2024, 4:27 PM - Andy Hill

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:27:54 GMT

by Andy Hill.

Hi Guys

Firstly, I like the plugin and well done for the hard work. Not sure if i am missing something but once rating a course, this can be edited at a later date. I want the course ratings to not be editable after the rating has been made. I have tried defining role as student and looked for disabling the editing but its not available. Is this possible? I can see from your screenshots that i cant see the "Edit" ability. Any help would be appreciated.

Friday, 13 December 2024, 5:01 AM - Peter Haasdijk

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:01:31 GMT

by Peter Haasdijk.

In the settings I left the rating mode on default and enabled "percourse". So now it should be possible to determin for each individual course that I do or do not want to show ratings. But I don't see a field for this in the course settings. This is in the most recent Moodle 4.1.11 version with tool_courserating v1.7.

Monday, 2 December 2024, 7:44 AM - Marina Glancy

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:44:09 GMT

by Marina Glancy.

Hello! The plugin may require additional configuration if you are using a custom theme. I suggest you to create an issue in github and attach screenshots and details about your theme. https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-tool_courserating/issues

Monday, 2 December 2024, 4:30 AM - Sarmad Sajjad

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 20:30:17 GMT

by Sarmad Sajjad.

Hello,

I have just installed the plugin.... i cant see any ratings... i am using moodle 4.2 version and latest version of plugin. Please guide me all the steps after installing the plugin.