2. If you haven't left your forum main page, then press the Update this Forum button in the top right-hand corner of the page:

3. On the Editing forum page, scroll down to the Grade box. Select how you want posts to be graded from the Aggregate type list. Grades given to posts are used to give students an overall grade for the forum activity. The options should be self-explanatory.

4. Select the grading scale you want to use. You can use a custom grading method if you want to (see Chapter 6, Time for Action Create a Custom Grade Scale). I'm going to allow a rating out of 10.

5. Finally, if you want to keep students focused on the particular posts, you can restrict grading to a certain date range. You'll find these settings at the bottom of the Grade box.

6. And that's it. We're done! Now, depending on...