1. JoomlaLMS-jReviews Manual
JoomlaLMS-jReviews integration allows you to use jReviews possibilities for JoomlaLMS courses. Your
learners will get an opportunity to rate each course according to the specified criteria and leave their reviews
for the courses. Upon entering the LMS area visitors will see the general rating for each course (see
screenshot below) and will be able to view individual users’ ratings and reviews after clicking the course title.
To integrate jReviews with JoomlaLMS:
1. Download jReviews from http://www.reviewsforjoomla.com/. Install it using the jReviews Documentation
(http://docs.reviewsforjoomla.com/downloads/jreviews/JReviews_Documentation.pdf ).
2. Go to ‘jReviews->Configuration & Management->Listing Types Manager’ to create rating criteria for your
JoomlaLMS courses. The following form will open:

2. Fill in the following fields:
-Listing Type Titile – specify the title for this listing type;
-Comments and Ratings – select ‘Allow comments and ratings’ if you wish to allow rating your courses;
-Rating Criterion – specify the name of the criterion;
-Required – check this box if the criterion is obligatory;
-Weight - specify the weight of the criterion if needed;
-Tooltip – enter a tooltip if needed.
Click ‘Add another criterion’ to add the next criterion. Click ‘Remove’ to remove a criterion from the list.
3. Click ‘Submit’ to save the settings. The listing type will be saved:
4. Download JoomlaLMS-jReviews integration plugin from http://www.joomlalms.com/extensions.html. Unzip
the downloaded file and copy the ‘everywhere_com_joomla_lms.php’ file from the unzipped folder to the
‘componentscom_jreviewsjreviewsmodelseverywhere’ folder in the root folder of your site (where
Joomla is installed).

3. 5. Enter your Joomla Back-end and go to ‘Components->jReviews-> Configuration & Management-
>Maintenance->Clear file registry’ to allow JoomlaLMS add-on to appear in the add-ons list.
6. Go to Addons->Everywhere.
7. Select a component (JoomlaLMS).
Click the ‘Setup Categories’ button to include JoomlaLMS categories in jReviews.

4. Select listing type – choose the pre-saved criteria from the drop-down menu.
Select one or multiple categories – choose the course categories for which these rating criteria will be
applied.
Click ‘Submit’ to save the settings.
8. Go to Components->JoomlaLMS->Plugins.
9. Enable the jReviews Integration plugin to integrate JReviews rating/commenting system into JoomlaLMS.
10. The jReviews integration will be the most effective if you organize your courses list as a blog layout. It means
that the courses list will not look as a typical list but as shown in the picture:

5. 11. To enable blogs layout go to Joomla Back-end->Menus, find and edit the menu for LMS component:
check Yes for ‘Show courses list as blog’ option.
When a user enters a course homepage reviews will be shown under the short description of the course.