Ratings for Forum, Database and Glossary guide

Moodle allows staff roles to change what different users can or cannot do within a certain activity. The list of capabilities is very long and is unique for each activity and changing permissions can lead to privacy and security issues. Some of the capabilities, with higher risks, are locked and you will not be able to change them.

By default, only lecturers can rate students. If you want students to rate their peers you need to update the Rate posts capability via Permissions for the relevant activity. 

Please, contact the Digital Education team via IT Self Service Portal who can change this permission for you.

1. Select Participants in the contextual navigation menu above the module name.
2. On the Participants page, open the Enrolled users drop-down menu on the left of the page. Choose Permissions from the drop-down menu.

4. In the Advanced role override menu, choose Student from the drop-down menu.
5. In the Filter field, type the activity type -e.g. forum, glossary, database.

   

6. Scroll down the list of capabilities until you reach Rate posts. Ensure Allow is selected.

   

7. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and select Save changes.

Students will now be able to rate their peers on all of the activities of the same type that you added to the Filter field.