--- title: "Rating" url: "https://help.cbook.de/en/article/rating" language: "en" last_updated: "2026-10-29T07:34:08.751Z" --- # Rating The Rating slide lets learners rate a list of statements on a slider scale, for example "How confident do you feel about…?" from "Not at all" to "Very". After they submit, they see their own ratings next to the average of everyone else in their group. It works well for self-assessments, check-ins, and starting a discussion. ## The Editor at a Glance When you open a Rating slide, you'll find: - **The canvas** in the middle. It shows the slide the way learners see it. You type texts and statements directly on it. - **The preview switch** above the canvas, with two options: - - **Interaction** shows what learners see before they rate. - **Results** shows what learners see after they submit, filled with sample data. Turn on **Fewer than 3 ratings** to preview what learners see while too few people have rated. - **The sidebar** on the right, with two tabs: **Appearance** and **Settings**. ## Building Blocks **Header texts.** Every Rating slide has four optional text fields at the top: **Overline**, **Title**, **Caption** and **Description**. Click one on the canvas to edit it. **Statements.** These are the things learners rate. Each statement gets its own slider. A new Rating slide starts with three empty statements. **Rating scale.** This is the range of numbers each slider covers, plus optional labels at the left end, the middle and the right end. **Results.** After submitting, learners see two layers. **Your-vote layer** shows their own ratings, and **Community layer** shows the group average. ## Creating and Managing Statements - **Add:** Click **Add statement** on the canvas or in the **Settings** tab under **Statements**. - **Edit:** Click a statement on the canvas and type. - **Reorder:** Drag a statement by its handle. You can also focus the handle and use the arrow keys. - **Delete:** Click the delete icon next to a statement. A **Statement deleted** message appears with an **Undo** button, in case you change your mind. The **Statements** section in the sidebar shows how many statements you have. There's no hard limit, but above 15 statements you'll see a warning, because long self-assessments can tire learners. In that case, think about splitting them across several slides. ## Settings Tab ### Result visualization This setting decides how results are shown after learners submit. - **Sliders** (default): one bar per statement, showing the learner's own value and the group average. - **Radar:** a spider-web chart that shows all statements at once as one shape. With Radar on, learners can also rate by dragging the points on the chart. The sliders below it still work too. Radar only works with **3 to 8 statements**. If you have fewer or more, the Radar button is disabled. If you've already picked Radar and then add or remove statements outside that range, you'll see a warning, and learners see sliders until you're back in range. Switching between Sliders and Radar never affects ratings learners have already given. ### Radar axis labels This section only appears when Radar is active. Statements are often too long to fit around the chart, so you can give each one a short label of up to **18 characters**. If you leave a label blank, the slide shortens the statement text for you. The field shows the shortened text as a grey placeholder, so you know what will appear. ### Rating scale - **Minimum** and **Maximum:** whole numbers only, and Minimum must be lower than Maximum. The default is -5 to 5. - **Left label**, **Middle label**, **Right label:** optional words that explain the ends and the middle of the scale, for example "Not at all", "Somewhat" and "Very". **Important:** If you change Minimum or Maximum after learners have rated, everything starts over. Earlier ratings no longer count, and those learners are asked to rate again. A note in the sidebar always reminds you of this. Changing only the labels is safe. ### Submit button - **Button text:** Change the text on the submit button. Leave it empty to use the default, "Submit my rating". Before their ratings are saved, learners see a confirmation dialog listing their values. **Once they submit, they can't change their ratings.** ## Appearance Tab ### Result colors & legend Here you set up the two result layers: - **Your-vote layer:** a legend label (default "You") and a color. - **Community layer:** a legend label (default "Community") and a color. Leave a label empty to use the default text. If both layers have the same color, a warning reminds you to pick different colors so learners can tell them apart. ### Background image (optional) This image fills the whole slide. It's scaled and cropped if its size doesn't match the slide. You can set separate images for landscape and portrait screens and adjust filters such as blur, grayscale, sepia, brightness and contrast. ### Interaction image (optional) This image sits on top of the background image and holds the interactive content. It's never cropped. Like the background image, it supports separate landscape and portrait versions and filters. ## How It Works for Learners 1. Each slider starts in the middle of the scale. 2. The learner moves the sliders (or drags the radar points). 3. Under the submit button, a hint reminds them that **every slider counts as submitted, even ones they didn't move**. 4. They click the submit button, check their values in the confirmation dialog, and then click **Submit rating** (or **Go back** to change something). 5. The results appear: their own ratings next to the group average. **The 3-person rule.** To protect learners' privacy, the group average only appears once **at least 3 people** have rated. Until then, learners see "Community results appear once at least 3 people have rated" and how many people have rated so far. On a radar chart, the group shape appears once **every** statement has at least 3 ratings. **Closed slides.** If you close the slide for input, learners who haven't rated yet only see the results and can't rate anymore. ## Evaluation Tab Open the slide's **Evaluation** tab to see what your learners rated. - **Pick a learning group** from the dropdown to see that group's results, or the whole group. - For each statement, you'll see the **Mean** (average rating), the **Avg. position** on the scale, and the number of **Ratings**. - If Radar is active, you'll also see a radar chart of the group averages. - **Export to Excel** downloads the results. Groups with fewer than 3 participants are skipped, and the export tells you which ones. - **Print** creates a printable version once at least 3 people in the group have rated. - **Accept learner input** opens or closes the slide for input, separately for each learning group. Select a group first to change it. If you changed the scale at some point, the Evaluation tab tells you how many ratings were given on the earlier scale. Those ratings aren't included in the results. ## Step-by-Step Guides ### Set up a quick self-assessment 1. Add a Rating slide and type a **Title**, for example "How confident are you?". 2. Click each of the three statements on the canvas and type your statements. Add more with **Add statement** if you need them. 3. In **Settings → Rating scale**, set **Minimum** to 1 and **Maximum** to 5. 4. Add labels: **Left label** "Not at all", **Right label** "Very". 5. Switch the preview to **Results** to check how the results will look. ### Show results as a radar chart 1. Make sure you have between 3 and 8 statements. 2. In **Settings → Result visualization**, choose **Radar**. 3. In **Radar axis labels**, give each statement a short label of 18 characters or fewer, or check the grey placeholders and keep them if they work. 4. In **Appearance → Result colors & legend**, pick two clearly different colors for the two layers. 5. Preview the **Results** view to check that the labels are readable. ### Run a live session with a group 1. Make sure the slide is open for input. In the **Evaluation** tab, pick the learning group and check that **Accept learner input** is on. 2. Ask learners to rate. Remind them that ratings can't be changed after they submit. 3. Once at least 3 people have rated, everyone sees the group average. 4. When you're done, turn **Accept learner input** off for that group. Latecomers then see the results only. 5. Use **Export to Excel** or **Print** to keep the results. ### Fix a scale you've already used If learners have already rated and you realize the scale is wrong: - **Labels only** (Left, Middle or Right label): change them freely. Existing ratings stay. - **Minimum or Maximum:** every learner who already rated will be asked to rate again, and their earlier ratings drop out of the results. It's best to do this before the slide goes live, or right after you've exported the old results.