You can give students the ability to rate glossary entries, just like they can rate forum postings. The question is, what do you want students to rate? The glossary entry's clarity, its helpfulness, or your writing skill in creating an entry? You'll need to consider what you want students to rate and create a custom scale that supports that rating. You determine who can rate glossary entries, and what scale to use on the Settings page:

In the preceding screenshot, the teacher applies a custom scale called Helpful Memorizing to the glossary. This custom scale was created before the teacher came to this page.

After creating the custom scale, the teacher went to the glossary's Settings page and selected it under Scale, as shown in the preceding screenshot.

Note that only the Manager, Teacher, and Non-editing teacher courses can rate the entries in this glossary. In the next step, the teacher modifies the permissions to allow students to rate entries.

The process to allow students to rate glossary entries, and it consists of three parts:

1. Creating the rating scale
2. Selecting the scale for the glossary
3. Giving students permission to use the ratings

This is how to create the rating scale:

1. Select Administration | Grade administration | Scales.
2. Click on the Add a new scale button.
3. On the new Scale page, give a Name to the scale. Only the teacher can see this name.
4. In the Scale field, enter the values that the user will select when giving glossary definition, a rating. The scale must have more than two items.
5. In the Description field, enter a short description. This will help you remember the purpose for this scale.
6. Save your changes.

This is how to select the scale for the Glossary:

1. Navigate to the Settings page of the Glossary
2. In the Scale field, select the scale that you have just created
3. Modify any other settings that you want on this page
4. Save your changes

Giving students permission to use ratings:

1. From the main menu, select Administration | Glossary administration | Permissions
2. On the Permissions page, scroll down to the Activity: Glossary section
3. Click on the plus sign located next to Rate entries:

4. Select the role that you want to add to this permission and then click on the Allow button.

In our example, students will be able to rate each glossary entry on how helpful it's to memorize the material. From the student's point of view, this is how the result looks: