After searching:

http://moodle.org/bugs/query.php?title=&title_type=like&description=forum+rating&description_type=like&emailsearch1=email&email1=&emailtype1=like&emailfield1%5B%5D=owner&projects=&versions=&components=&op=doquery&order=severity.sort_order&sort=asc&savedqueryname=

I'd like to add the ability to rate a student post and respond all in one page.

mod/forum/post.php?reply=2034

Please, give the teacher the option to rate the student post as well. It requires at least four page loads to respond and rate one forum post... I personally don't use forums because they are so very time consuming to use as evaluation tools.

http://moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net/moodle/moodle/mod/forum/post.php