My organization has begun exploring the forum activity, and I have been looking at the Totara community as a great example of how to implement this correctly. I noticed you have a ratings option on the suggested features forum which allows a user to give a "+1" to a post or reply. I do not see this specific option available in my system. We are on version 11.6. Is this feature available or is it something that needs to be customized?
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How to recreate rating system used in Totara community suggested features
How to recreate rating system used in Totara community suggested features
Re: How to recreate rating system used in Totara community suggested features
Hi Max,
You will need to create a new scale on your site to allow you to do this. You can add a new scale on your site by going to /grade/edit/scale/index.php.
In our scale we use '+1' as the only scale item.
Then in the 'Ratings' section of the forum settings, set the aggregate type to 'Sum of ratings' and reference your new scale.
Re: How to recreate rating system used in Totara community suggested features
I would love to see similar functionality as an out-of-the-box feature of Totara. Ideally it would be something customizable with different options like upvote/downvote, likes/dislikes, hearts, emoticons, etc. Allowing users to "like" posts in some way is a great form of interactivity which should increase user engagement as well as the perceived usefulness of the LMS. If there's already a similar feature request, let me know. Otherwise I will make one. Thanks for all your help!