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The other problem (always 1 star) does sound like a bug. Mat, can you look at this?
Perhaps the maximum could be set automatically at the highest grade anyone obtained? This could be a problem though, as if no one makes any effort, even small scores will equal large percentages. Maybe the teacher could set the scope of the scale? I set the students the task of hitting 10 stars as a minimum, so maybe 10 could equal 100% in this case, with any extra marks being set as a bonus. Still leaves the problem of how to deal with the bonus. How about combining the two so that if no one hits the minimum, all marks are treated as percentages of the teacher-imposed total, but if people exceed it, the highest grade is the maximum?
A number would be great IMO, it means that students who put a lot more effort in will get a much higher score, which seems fairer. It also mimics the discussion book concept of having a register open during a class discussion and putting a tick by a pupils name every time they say something constructive. I've used this a lot as it gives public credit to the students who are helpful/keen in this respect, but are less academic. It would be better in the scores bit I think (if this grading option was chosen). Feedback is still good for holding notes and teachers may want to add comments whilst the forum is still active, which might interfere and I'm also not sure that displaying the original scale in the gradebook would mean much if the main criteria is how many total stars you get. As well, I was just writing reviews using gradebook info and thought that it would be great to have a roll-over pop-up for forums just like there is for assignments. What I really wanted to know was how many posts of what rating had been posted.
The pop-up could have a top section with a list of post titles and ratings, then a lower section containing the feedback. Fiddling about with the feedback, I noticed that the forum tasks in the gradebook that have only one star, do not have any grade set when I turn on editing. Took me a while, but I can confirm the gradebook bug. At least, I could yesterday, but now it seems to be working, as Petr fixed it in
 . Thanks Petr! The always-show-one-star bug has also been fixed along the way.
I'm leaving this bug open as a brainstorming place on how to get the desired no-maximum-sum feature. Tested and verified. Closing.
Does this mean that the 1-star bug is fixed, or the open ended grade for the summed scale scores, or both?
Good point... Only the one-star bug is fixed, so there should be a new feature request for the open ended grading scale, it's a different issue that needs more discussion (display and calculations). Can you do that? Otherwise, I'll copy over the relevant parts of this one...
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Improvement
Closed
Minor
forum sum ratings are broken/ counterintuitive for star scales
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Perhaps we could just put the unlimited total in the feedback field as a number?