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[davewill]

Usually, they give 100% grades for forum posts. 

This is assuming that your posts are substantive, include properly researched APA-style citations/references, and there are more than the minimum number of posts? Or are you suggesting that they give 100% without meeting the rubric?

The forum post assignments are usually much simpler than that, like a paragraph or two responding to a prompt, followed by two posts responding to other student's posts. It's very much a participation grade. The hardest one I ever did was for the A.I. class where they asked a question on decomposing logical expressions. I chose to respond with the outline of a proof (not a formal proof which would have been much harder) because I had just finished Discrete Math and knew the answer. Most of the posts kind of waved their hand at it, and some were simply wrong, but I think everyone got credit.