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A '''Workshop''' is a course peer assessment activity with many options. This module maybe removed from the standard Moodle in 2.0.  The default is to hide it in the site administration block>modules>manage activities  Other modules such as [[Assignment module|assignment]] have some of its functionality.    
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Workshop is a powerful peer assessment activity. The documentation on '''[[Workshop settings]]''' explains the different options available.  


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.
{{Note|New to Workshop? Try our '''[[Workshop quick guide]].'''}}


==Settings==
Students submit their own work and then receive a number of submissions from other students which they must assess according to the teacher's specifications. (They may also assess their own work if the teacher requests this.) Text may be typed directly into Moodle's editor, or files of any type may be uploaded, as long as others  have the software to view them. See '''[[Using Workshop]]''' for details of the phases involved. The teacher can decide whether to show or hide the identities of the students to each other when assessing is taking place.
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.


== See also ==
Two grades are given and appear in the Gradebook: a grade for the student's own submission and a grade for the quality of their peer assessment skills. See '''[[Workshop grading strategies]]''' for more information.
*[http://download.moodle.org/download.php/docs/en/using_moodle/ch6_workshops.pdf Using Moodle Chapter 6: Workshops]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=74784 New Workshop Module] forum discussion
*[[Exercise module]] allows student self assessment and teacher to seperately grade the quality of the assignment and the self assessment.


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Workshop is primarily a student-focused activity; however, the teacher may guide the students by providing example submissions for them to try out before assessing their peers and at the end of the workshop the teacher may publish some good (or less good) examples.
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For a working example of a workshop activity, see the [http://school.demo.moodle.net/course/view.php?id=59 Celebrating Cultures course in the School Demonstration site.] with the username ''teacher'' and password ''moodle.''
 
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Latest revision as of 14:35, 11 January 2016

Workshop is a powerful peer assessment activity. The documentation on Workshop settings explains the different options available.

Note: New to Workshop? Try our Workshop quick guide.


Students submit their own work and then receive a number of submissions from other students which they must assess according to the teacher's specifications. (They may also assess their own work if the teacher requests this.) Text may be typed directly into Moodle's editor, or files of any type may be uploaded, as long as others have the software to view them. See Using Workshop for details of the phases involved. The teacher can decide whether to show or hide the identities of the students to each other when assessing is taking place.

Two grades are given and appear in the Gradebook: a grade for the student's own submission and a grade for the quality of their peer assessment skills. See Workshop grading strategies for more information.

Workshop is primarily a student-focused activity; however, the teacher may guide the students by providing example submissions for them to try out before assessing their peers and at the end of the workshop the teacher may publish some good (or less good) examples.

For a working example of a workshop activity, see the Celebrating Cultures course in the School Demonstration site. with the username teacher and password moodle.

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