The Rating feature allows course creators to collect real-time feedback from students, providing valuable insights throughout the learning process. Unlike traditional feedback or questionnaires, which are typically collected after activities, the rating scale enables continuous evaluation, enhancing the learning experience. This feedback supports adaptive learning by influencing the course path based on students’ responses.
With the Rating feature, course creators can:
- Gather feedback during various stages of the course.
- Integrate the ratings seamlessly with adaptive learning paths.
- Make feedback comparable across multiple courses, allowing for consistent reporting.
- Trigger notifications based on specific responses, facilitating timely actions and interventions.
Course creators can choose from numeric or Moodle defined scales, with scales based on Moodle’s customizable scale options. Custom scales can be easily created and integrated into the Rating element, offering flexibility to match the course’s needs.
Settings for the rating element are fully customizable, including:
- The ability to determine whether ratings can be modified after submission.
- Options to control how results are displayed after submission, such as hiding aggregated results or showing average scores for numeric scales and counts for non-numeric responses.
Course creators also have the option to make ratings mandatory for students to submit.
Variables
For reporting purposes, each rating element is associated with a variable. Admins can create, manage, and assign variables to different course categories, helping to streamline reporting across multiple courses. Variables can be active or archived, ensuring that older data remains intact for historical reporting while preventing new data from being added. This allows for cross-course evaluations, where ratings across different courses can be analyzed based on a specific variable. By doing so, course creators can assess how certain aspects are rated across courses, providing a broader understanding of trends and feedback across the curriculum.
The Rating element empowers course creators to implement empirically grounded evaluation structures using variable schemas and factor models. Each rating item is linked to an underlying construct (variable) and grouped into broader thematic categories (types). This enables you to structure evaluation instruments in a way that is both pedagogically meaningful and empirically analyzable.
This course evaluation example shows rating items linked to specific variables. Once students submit their answer, the most common responses from others are revealed.
Ratings can be embedded within a learning activity and thus refer directly to the content.
