Grade Forums in Moodle

1.) Navigate to the forum you wish to grade in your Moodle course

2.) Once students have submitted to the forum, you will see a 'Grade Users' button, click that button to grade the forum posts

3.) You will be taken to the forum grader where you will see posts from one student at a time

4.) If you wish to view the entire discussion that the student participated in, click the 'View discussion' button under their post

5.) Simple direct grading is the default grading option for a forum, you will see the space to grade the forum post directly to the right of the student response

However, instructors can use a rubric or a grading guide to grade forum posts. The option to change the grading type is within the settings of a forum.

6.) If you wish to notify the student that you have graded their forum post, click the radio button next to 'Yes, send notification to student'

7.) Use the right and left arrow button to navigate between students in order to grade their forum posts

8.) When you have finished grading all of the student posts, click the 'Close' button in the upper right-hand corner of the page