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Workshop is a peer assessment activity with many options. Students submit their work via an online text tool and attachments. There are two grades for a student: their own work and their peer assessments of other students' work.

Key features

Workshop is similar to the Assignment module and extends its functionality in many ways. However, it is recommended that both course facilitator (teacher) and course participants (students) have at least some experience with the Assignment module before the Workshop is used in the course.

As in the Assignment, course participants submit their work during the Workshop activity. Every course participant submits their own work. The submission may consist of a text and attachments. Therefore, Workshop submission merges both Online text and Upload file types of the Assignment module. Support for team work (in the sense of one submission per group of participants) is out of scope of Workshop module.
The submissions are assessed using a structured assessment form defined by the course facilitator (teacher). Workshop supports several types of assessment forms. All of them allows multi-criteria assessment in comparison to the Assignment module where only one grade is given to a submission.
Workshop supports peer assessment process. Course participants may be asked to assess selected set of their peers' submissions. The module coordinates the collection and distribution of these assessments.
Course participants get actually two grades in a single Workshop activity - grade for their submission (that is how good their submitted work is) and grade for assessment (that is how well they assessed their peers). Workshop activity creates two grade items in the course Gradebook and they can be aggregated there as needed.
The process of peer assessment and understanding the assessment form can be practised in advance on so called example submissions. These examples are provided by the facilitator together with a reference assessment. Workshop participants can assess these examples and compare their assessment with the reference one.
The course facilitator can select some submissions and publish them so they are available to the others at the end of Workshop activity (in comparison to the Assignment module where submitted work is available only to the author and the facilitator).

Workshop in Moodle 2.0 video:

<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QypkOcAEaE</mediaplayer>

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-<p class="note">'''Note:'''The Workshop module is being completely rewritten for Moodle 2.0 by David Mudrák. Please see [[Development:Workshop 2.0 specification]], [[Development:Workshop 2.0 testing]] and join our discussion [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=121805 Workshop 2.0 specification - request for review and comments].</p>
+{{Activities}}
+[[Image:workshop_icon_logo.gif]]'''Workshop''' is a peer assessment activity with many options. Students submit their work via an online text tool and attachments. There are two grades for a student: their own work and their peer assessments of other students' work.
+[[Image:Workshopexample.png]]
-A '''Workshop''' is a course peer assessment activity with many options. It was the very first contributed module, but it's been largely unmaintained for a long time except for emergency fixes by various developers to keep it operational. By default, it is hidden in Moodle 1.9 in the ''site administration > modules > manage activities''.
+* [[Workshop settings]]
+* [[Using Workshop]]
+* [[Workshop grading strategies|Grading strategies]]
+* [[Workshop_module_FAQ|Workshop FAQ]]
-Workshop allows participants to assess each other's projects, as well as exemplar projects, in a number of ways. It also coordinates the collection and distribution of these assessments.
+== Key features ==
-Please see [[Development:Workshop 2.0]] and [[Workshop module/Tutorial]]
+Workshop is similar to the [[Assignment module]] and extends its functionality in many ways. However, it is recommended that both course facilitator (teacher) and course participants (students) have at least some experience with the Assignment module before the Workshop is used in the course.
-==Documentation to be polished and sorted==
+* As in the Assignment, course participants submit their work during the Workshop activity. Every course participant submits their own work. The submission may consist of a text and attachments. Therefore, Workshop submission merges both ''Online text'' and ''Upload file'' types of the Assignment module. Support for team work (in the sense of one submission per group of participants) is out of scope of Workshop module.
+* The submissions are assessed using a structured assessment form defined by the course facilitator (teacher). Workshop supports several types of assessment forms. All of them allows multi-criteria assessment in comparison to the Assignment module where only one grade is given to a submission.
+* Workshop supports peer assessment process. Course participants may be asked to assess selected set of their peers' submissions. The module coordinates the collection and distribution of these assessments.
+* Course participants get actually two grades in a single Workshop activity - grade for their submission (that is how good their submitted work is) and grade for assessment (that is how well they assessed their peers). Workshop activity creates two grade items in the course [[Gradebook]] and they can be aggregated there as needed.
+* The process of peer assessment and understanding the assessment form can be practised in advance on so called example submissions. These examples are provided by the facilitator together with a reference assessment. Workshop participants can assess these examples and compare their assessment with the reference one.
+* The course facilitator can select some submissions and publish them so they are available to the others at the end of Workshop activity (in comparison to the Assignment module where submitted work is available only to the author and the facilitator).
-===How to read values in the workshop grades report===
+Workshop in Moodle 2.0 video:
-{| class="nicetable"
+<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QypkOcAEaE</mediaplayer>
-|-
-! Value
-! Meaning
-|-
-| - (-) < Alice
-| The is an assessment allocated to be done by Alice, but it has been neither assessed nor evaluated yet
-|-
-| 68 (-) < Alice
-| Alice assessed the submission, giving the grade for submission 68. The grade for assessment (grading grade) has not been evaluated yet.
-|-
-| 23 (-) > Bob
-| Bob's submission was assessed by a peer, receiving the grade for submission 23. The grade for this assessment has not been evaluated yet.
-|-
-| 76 (12) < Cindy
-| Cindy assessed the submission, giving the grade 76. The grade for this assessment has been evaluated 12.
-|-
-| 67 (8) @ 4 < David
-| David assessed the submission, giving the grade for submission 67, receiving the grade for this assessment 8. His assessment has weight 4
-|-
-| 80 (<s>20</s> / <u>17</u>) > Eve
-| Eve's submission was assessed by a peer. Eve's submission received 80 and the grade for this assessment was calculated to 20. Teacher has overriden the grading grade to 17, probably with an explanation for the reviewer.
-|}
-==Settings==
-These are the settings for 1.6 but are similar for 1.8 onward.
-The settings have help buttons.  The fields or options in settings in Moodle 1.6.include:
-:Submission Title, Description,
-:Grade for Assessments, Grade for Submission, Grading Strategy, 'Number of Comments, Assessment Elements, Grade Bands, Criterion Statements or Categories in a Rubric', <br>
-:Number of Attachments expected on Submissions, Allow Resubmissions, Number of Assessments of Examples from Teacher, Comparison of Assessments, Number of Assessments of Student Submissions, Weight for Teacher Assessments, Over Allocation, Self Assessment, Assessments must be agreed, Hide Grades before Agreement, League Table of Submitted Work, <br>
-:Hide Names from Students, Use Password, Password, Password Maximum Size <br>
-:Start of submissions, Start of assessments, End of submissions, End of assessments, Release Teacher Grades, Group mode, Visible to students.
-== Research papers dealing with Workshop module ==
-* [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1562877.1562985 Peer assessments using the moodle workshop tool] by John F. Dooley
-* [http://fie-conference.org/fie2009/papers/1254.pdf Easy-to-use Workshop Module] by Álvaro Figueira and Elisabete Cunha
-== See also ==
-*[http://download.moodle.org/download.php/docs/en/using_moodle/ch6_workshops.pdf Using Moodle Chapter 6: Workshops]
-*[http://www2.oakland.edu/elis/traindocs/Moodle/Workshop/index.html Moodle Workshop Guide] by Laura M. Christensen &copy; 2007
-*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74784 New Workshop Module] forum discussion
-* [http://www.slideshare.net/nrparmar/moodle-workshop-case-study-1807686 Promoting Peer Assessment: Moodle Workshop] by Nitin Parmar, 2006
-*[[Exercise module]] allows student self assessment and teacher to seperately grade the quality of the assignment and the self assessment.
-[[Category:Workshop]]
-[[Category:Contributed code]]
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