Create Course Rating
Course rating helps you gather insights into learner satisfaction, identify areas for improvement, and track the effectiveness of the course. Create a course rating lesson in your courses to enable students to rate a course after completing it. You can also allow the student to leave written feedback on the course.
Ratings are stored in the analytics dashboard and can be exported or filtered by course or cohort. For more information on how course ratings are displayed in the dashboard, refer to the Courses Analytics article.
Note: Only one course rating lesson is allowed per course.
Create a New Course Rating Lesson
You can add a course rating lesson to a new course and an existing course as a lesson. You can’t add a course rating component to an existing multi-format lesson.
To add a course rating lesson:
- Open your Skilljar dashboard and click Course Management from the home page. Alternatively, expand the Course Management header on the left and select Courses.
- Select the course in which you want to create a course rating lesson. The details page is displayed.
- Click the Curriculum icon in the top-left corner.
- Click New Lesson. The slide-out panel is displayed.
- On the slide-out panel, click Course Rating.
- By default, all the details are autofilled based on the course name. You can change the Title and Content name
Note: To collect only course ratings without student feedback, turn off the Include Additional Feedback toggle.
- After providing the details, click Save to add the lesson.
FAQs
Can this lesson type be added to courses that are set to "registration not-required"?
Course Rating lessons are incompatible with courses that have registration requirements disabled. Because these courses do not capture analytics, learners will be unable to submit their rating and complete the lesson. Ratings lessons should be removed from courses with registration disabled.
If a learner has already rated a course, can they rate it again after retaking the course?
It depends on the course configuration. If a new course progress record is created with a new enrollment, the learner can submit a second rating. The original rating is not overwritten; both ratings remain associated with the same user.
How do I access course ratings in the Skilljar API?
You can retrieve course ratings from the following API endpoints:
- For Individual Course Ratings
To access individual student ratings for a course, from your Skilljar Dashboard, navigate to the Domains > Published Courses > Enrollments endpoint. This endpoint returns enrollment-level data, including individual ratings submitted by students. - For Average Course Rating
To access the average rating for a course, use the Courses endpoint. This endpoint returns course-level data, including the aggregated average rating.
For complete API documentation, refer to https://api.skilljar.com/docs/.
How do I access course ratings in the Data Connector?
Course ratings are available in the Data Connector through thestudent_course_ratingstable. This table contains student-level course rating data.
For detailed schema information, refer to Skilljar Course Rating Data connectors.