How to automatically give points to anyone who post or reply a discussion (DOGWOOD)

[Vorasuang Duangchinda]

Hi there,

As an instructor, I try to encourage students to participate in a discussion board (I use Dogwood). For this time, I will not check for a quality of their post or their reply, but I want to award 5 points to anyone who made a new post or made a new reply (no matter how many times they did on one single discussion board.

What I have done:
1) In the setting > grading, I have created an assignment type correctly
2) In the content > outline > new subsection, I have created one with Grade as defined in 1)
3) under that subsection > I have created 2 units, first on top as a raw html providing explanation to the students, then 2nd unit as a discussion board

My students have created a new post and made a reply several times in that discussion board, but no one earns points for that.

Question: How to set up my class to automatically give points to anyone who post or reply a discussion board (DOGWOOD)

I am new to this OpenEdx and will appreciate any suggestions, thank you.

Michael

[jo...@curricu.me]

Michael,

I've dealt with the same issue and ended up building an x-block, based on the SGA x-block, to grade students in a class for things like participation. It isn't automated, but it lets course faculty see all their students and give them a grade. 

I call it the "Flex-Grader" and I use it for exactly this purpose. I literally just made the code public, so it might be a bit buggy on your instance, but if you want to give it a shot and let me know what issues you face, I can probably help. 

I think the largest class I've seen this work for is 300.

https://github.com/jswope00/flex-grader

John

[Vorasuang Duangchinda]

Dear John,

Thank you so much for this. I will surely give it a try. I hope soon EdX will have this as a standard function.

Warm Regards,

Michael