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What is the Workshop activity?

Workshop is a powerful peer assessment activity. Students add submissions which are then distributed amongst their peers for assessment based on a grading scale specified by the teacher.

Overview of the Workshop activity

How is it set up?

In a course, with the editing turned on, choose 'Workshop' from the activity chooser.
Give it a name and, if needed, a description
Expand the other sections to select the settings you want. If you are not sure, leave everything as default. See Workshop settings for more detailed information.
Grading settings - students receive two grades, one for the work they submit and one for the quality of their peer assessments. The page Workshop grading strategies explains this more.
Submission settings is where you explain the task they must submit.
Assessment settings is where you give a brief outline of how they will assess the work of their peers.
Feedback will, if enabled, allow students to add text comments when they review each other's work.
Example submissions, if enabled, allows you to provide examples for students to practise with before they begin peer assessing. (Enabling this opens more options.)
Availability gives you the option to allow students to start peer assessing as soon as the submission deadline is over, rather than you enabling this manually.
Click Save and display and explore the Workshop phases in the section Teacher view below, making sure you complete the Set up phase and switch to the Submission phase when you want your students to begin the activity.

How does it work?

Student view

Students click on the Workshop icon in the course to access it. Initially they will see either the Set up phase (if the teacher is still preparing the Workshop) or the Submission phase when they are allowed to submit.

Other phases will be highlighted at different times depending on the teacher's settings. During the Assessment phase, students scroll down the page to view the submissions they must review:

Once grades are calculated and finalised, and the workshop is closed, students see their two grades.

Teacher view

Once a Workshop activity has been created and saved, it is in the Set up phase. It must be in the Submission phase for students to be able to submit work and then moved to the Assessment phase for them to review each other's submissions. The switch may automatic or manual.

Setup phase

Click 'Edit assessment form' to provide detailed grading criteria for your students to use. When finished, click 'Save and close', and all ticks on the Setup phase will be the same colour.
You are ready to switch to the Submission phase which lets students send in their work. Click the icon or text at the top of Submission phase. This phase will be highlighted.

Submission phase

Students will now be able to submit their work during this time, until any deadline you specified - unless you also allowed late submissions.
Click the link 'Allocate submissions' to decide if you yourself want to choose which student assesses whose work (Manual allocation), or if you want Moodle to choose for you (Random allocation) And do you want students to assess others' work even if they have not submitted anything themselves?
If,in the Availability section you set the workshop to switch to the submission phase automatically once the submission deadline is over, choose Scheduled allocation.

You can see how many have submitted and how many still need to submit. Click the icon or text to move to the Assessment phase if you chose to switch phases yourself. The phase will be highlighted. (Remember that you can move back a phase if you need to, for example if you want to allow a student to resubmit.)

Assessment phase

Students will assess the work of their peers according to the instructions and criteria you gave them.
You can monitor their progress by looking at the grades underneath the phases screen:

When you are ready, click the icon or text to move to the Grading evaluation phase. This phase will be highlighted.

Grading evaluation phase

Here, Moodle calculates the final grades for submission and for assessment. The page Using Workshop gives more details on how the grading works.
For the grade for assessment, you can decide how strict you want the comparison to be. If you are not sure, leave it as the default 'fair'.
You can recalculate the grades several times.
You can change grades here if you need to.
You can show to other students selected submissions if you wish. Click on a submission in the workshop grades report (image above) and scroll down to 'Feedback for the author'. Tick the box to publish this submission. Other students will see it once the workshop is closed.

Closing the workshop

When you are satisfied with the final grading, click the icon or text to close the workshop. The Closed phase will be highlighted and students will be able to see their grades, any published submissions and a conclusion if you added one.

More information

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 {{Activities}}
+__NOTOC__
+==What is the Workshop activity?==
-[[Image:workshop_icon_logo.gif]]'''Workshop''' is a peer assessment activity with many options. Students submit their work via an on line text tool and attachments. There are two grades for a student: their own work and their peer assessments of other students' work.  These instructions are for the completely redesigned version for Moodle 2.0.
+Workshop is a powerful peer assessment activity. Students add submissions which are then distributed amongst their peers for assessment based on a grading scale specified by the teacher.
-* [[Workshop settings]]
-* [[Using Workshop]]
-* [[Workshop_module_FAQ|Workshop FAQ]]
-Workshop in Moodle 2.0 video:
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/cy9pfzVMEEE | desc = Overview of the Workshop activity}}
-<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QypkOcAEaE</mediaplayer>
+__NOTOC__
-== Key features ==
+==How is it set up?==
+#In a course, with the editing turned on, choose 'Workshop' from the activity chooser.
+#Give it a name and, if needed, a description
+#Expand the other sections to select the settings you want. If you are not sure, leave everything as default. See [[Workshop settings]] for more detailed information.
+#Grading settings - students receive two grades, one for the work they submit and one for the quality of their peer assessments. The page [[Workshop grading strategies]] explains this more.
+#Submission settings is where you explain the task they must submit.
+#Assessment settings is where you give a brief outline of how they will assess the work of their peers.
+#Feedback will, if enabled, allow students to add text comments when they review each other's work.
+#Example submissions, if enabled, allows you to provide examples for students to practise with before they begin peer assessing. (Enabling this opens more options.)
+#Availability gives you the option to allow students to start peer assessing as soon as the submission deadline is over, rather than you enabling this manually.
+#Click Save and display and explore the Workshop phases in the section Teacher view below, making sure you complete the Set up phase and switch to the Submission phase when you want your students to begin the activity.
+==How does it work?==
+===Student view===
+*Students click on the Workshop icon in the course to access it. Initially they will see either the Set up phase (if the teacher is still preparing the Workshop) or the Submission phase when they are allowed to submit.
+[[File:38SubmissionPhase.png|center]]
+*Other phases will be highlighted at different times depending on the teacher's settings. During the Assessment phase, students scroll down the page to view the submissions they must review:
+[[File:StudentAssessmentPhaseInstructions.png|center]]
+*Once grades are calculated and finalised, and the workshop is closed, students see their two grades.
+[[File:closedworkshop.png|center]]
+===Teacher view===
+Once a Workshop activity has been created and saved, it is in the Set up phase. It must be in the Submission phase for students to be able to submit work and then moved to the Assessment phase for them to review each other's submissions. The switch may automatic or manual.
+====Setup phase====
+*Click 'Edit assessment form' to provide detailed grading criteria for your students to use. When finished, click 'Save and close', and all ticks on the Setup phase will be the same colour.
+*You are ready to switch to the Submission phase which lets students send in their work. Click the icon or text at the top of Submission phase. This phase will be highlighted.
+====Submission phase====
+*Students will now be able to submit their work during this time, until any deadline you specified - unless you also allowed late submissions.
+*Click the link 'Allocate submissions' to decide if you yourself want to choose which student assesses whose work (''Manual allocation''), or if you want Moodle to choose for you (''Random allocation'') And do you want students to assess others' work even if they have not submitted anything themselves?
+*If,in the '''Availability''' section you set the workshop to switch to the submission phase automatically once the submission deadline is over, choose ''Scheduled allocation.''
+[[File:33workshopsubmissionphase.png]]
+*You can see how many have submitted and how many still need to submit. Click the icon or text to move to the Assessment phase if you chose to switch phases yourself. The phase will be highlighted. (Remember that you can move back a phase if you need to, for example if you want to allow a student to resubmit.)
+====Assessment phase====
+*Students will assess the work of their peers according to the instructions and criteria you gave them.
+*You can monitor their progress by looking at the grades underneath the phases screen:
+[[File:workshopqgreport.png]]
+*When you are ready, click the icon or text to move to the Grading evaluation phase. This phase will be highlighted.
+====Grading evaluation phase====
+*Here, Moodle calculates the final grades for submission and for assessment. The page '''[[Using Workshop]]''' gives more details on how the grading works.
+*For the grade for assessment, you can decide how strict you want the comparison to be. If you are not sure, leave it as the default 'fair'.
+*You can recalculate the grades several times.
+*You can change grades here if you need to.
+* You can show to other students selected submissions if you wish. Click on a submission in the workshop grades report (image above) and scroll down to 'Feedback for the author'. Tick the box to publish this submission. Other students will see it once the workshop is closed.
-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.
+====Closing the workshop====
+When you are satisfied with the final grading, click the icon or text to close the workshop. The Closed phase will be highlighted and students will be able to see their grades, any published submissions and a conclusion if you added one.
-* 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.
+==More information==
-* 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 settings]]
-* 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.
+*[[Using Workshop]]
-* 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.
+*[[Workshop FAQ]]
-* 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.
+*[[Workshop grading strategies]]
-* 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).
-== Grading strategies ==
+[[de:Gegenseitige Beurteilung]]
+[[es:Actividad de taller]]
-[[Workshop grading strategies|Grading strategy]] determines how the assessment form may look like and how the final grade for submission is calculated from all the filled assessment forms for the given submission. Workshop ships with four standard grading strategies. More strategies can be developed as pluggable extensions.
-*Accumulative grading strategy - a set of criteria is graded separately.
-*Comments - similar to above but always given a 100% grade. Useful for initial feedback to authors
-*Number of errors - an assessment method that counts errors in specific criteria (for example, spelling, formatting, creative ideas, lack of examples).
-*Rubric - a set of descriptions that are associated with a specific criteria (outome). Each criteria has unique word scale.
-== Calculation of final grades ==
-The final grades for a Workshop activity are obtained gradually at several stages. The following scheme illustrates the process and also provides the information in what database tables the grade values are stored.
-[[Image:workshop_grades_calculation.png|400px|thumb|left|The scheme of grades calculation in Workshop]]
-<br clear="all"/>
-As you can see, every participant gets two numerical grades into the course Gradebook. During the Grading evaluation phase, course facilitator can let Workshop module to calculate these final grades. Note that they are stored in Workshop module only until the activity is switched to the final (Closed) phase. Therefore it is pretty safe to play with grades unless you are happy with them and then close the Workshop and push the grades into the Gradebook. You can even switch the phase back, recalculate or override the grades and close the Workshop again so the grades are updated in the Gradebook again (should be noted that you can override the grades in the Gradebook, too).
-During the grading evaluation, Workshop grades report provides you with a comprehensive overview of all individual grades. The report uses various symbols and syntax:
-{| class="nicetable"
-|-
-! 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 (<del>20</del> / <ins>17</ins>) > 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 overridden the grading grade to 17, probably with an explanation for the reviewer.
-|}
-=== Grade for submission ===
-The final grade for every submission is calculated as weighted mean of particular assessment grades given by all reviewers of this submission. The value is rounded to a number of decimal places set in the Workshop settings form.
-Course facilitator can influence the grade for a given submission in two ways:
-* by providing their own assessment, possibly with a higher weight than usual peer reviewers have
-* by overriding the grade to a fixed value
-=== Grade for assessment ===
-Grade for assessment tries to estimate the quality of assessments that the participant gave to the peers. This grade (also known as ''grading grade'') is calculated by the artificial intelligence hidden within the Workshop module as it tries to do typical teacher's job.
-During the grading evaluation phase, you use a Workshop subplugin to calculate grades for assessment. At the moment, only one subplugin is available called ''Comparison with the best assessment''. The following text describes the method used by this subplugin. Note that more grading evaluation subplugins can be developed as Workshop extensions.
-Grades for assessment are displayed in the braces () in the Workshop grades report. The final grade for assessment is calculated as the average of particular grading grades.
-There is not a single formula to describe the calculation. However the process is deterministic. Workshop picks one of the assessments as the ''best'' one - that is closest to the mean of all assessments - and gives it 100% grade. Then it measures a 'distance' of all other assessments from this best one and gives them the lower grade, the more different they are from the best (given that the best one represents a consensus of the majority of assessors). The parameter of the calculation is how strict we should be, that is how quickly the grades fall down if they differ from the best one.
-If there are just two assessments per submission, Workshop can not decide which of them is 'correct'. Imagine you have two reviewers - Alice and Bob. They both assess Cindy's submission. Alice says it is a rubbish and Bob says it is excellent. There is no way how to decide who is right. So Workshop simply says - ok, you both are right and I will give you both 100% grade for this assessment. To prevent it, you have two options:
-* Either you have to provide an additional assessment so the number of assessors (reviewers) is odd and workshop will be able to pick the best one. Typically, the teacher comes and provide their own assessment of the submission to judge it
-* Or you may decide that you trust one of the reviewers more. For example you know that Alice is much better in assessing than Bob is. In that case, you can increase the weight of Alice's assessment, let us say to "2" (instead of default "1"). For the purposes of calculation, Alice's assessment will be considered as if there were two reviewers having the exactly same opinion and therefore it is likely to be picked as the best one.
-'''Backward compatibility note:''' In Workshop 1.x this case of exactly two assessors with the same weight is not handled properly and leads to wrong results as only the one of them is lucky to get 100% and the second get lower grade.
-It is very important to know that the grading evaluation subplugin ''Comparison with the best assessment'' does not compare the final grades. Regardless the grading strategy used, every filled assessment form can be seen as n-dimensional vector or normalized values. So the subplugin compares responses to all assessment form dimensions (criteria, assertions, ...). Then it calculates the distance of two assessments, using the variance statistics.
-To demonstrate it on example, let us say you use grading strategy Number of errors to peer-assess research essays. This strategy uses a simple list of assertions and the reviewer (assessor) just checks if the given assertion is passed or failed. Let us say you define the assessment form using three criteria:
-# Does the author state the goal of the research clearly? (yes/no)
-# Is the research methodology described? (yes/no)
-# Are references properly cited? (yes/no)
-Let us say the author gets 100% grade if all criteria are passed (that is answered "yes" by the assessor), 75% if only two criteria are passed, 25% if only one criterion is passed and 0% if the reviewer gives 'no' for all three statements.
-Now imagine the work by Daniel is assessed by three colleagues - Alice, Bob and Cindy. They all give individual responses to the criteria in order:
-* Alice: yes / yes / no
-* Bob: yes / yes / no
-* Cindy: no / yes / yes
-As you can see, they all gave 75% grade to the submission. But Alice and Bob agree in individual responses, too, while the responses in Cindy's assessment are different. The evaluation method ''Comparison with the best assessment'' tries to imagine, how a hypothetical absolutely fair assessment would look like. In the [[Development:Workshop 2.0 specification]], David refers to it as "how would Zeus assess this submission?" and we estimate it would be something like this (we have no other way):
-* Zeus 66% yes / 100% yes / 33% yes
-Then we try to find those assessments that are closest to this theoretically objective assessment. We realize that Alice and Bob are the best ones and give 100% grade for assessment to them. Then we calculate how much far Cindy's assessment is from the best one. As you can see, Cindy's response matches the best one in only one criterion of the three so Cindy's grade for assessment will not be much high.
-The same logic applies to all other grading strategies, adequately. The conclusion is that the grade given by the best assessor does not need to be the one closest to the average as the assessment are compared at the level of individual responses, not the final grades.
-=== More explanations ===
-* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=153268 Thread at moodle.org] where David explains a particular Workshop results
-* [http://www.slideshare.net/mark.drechsler/moodle-workshop-20-a-simplified-explanation Presentation by Mark Drechsler]
-== 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
-== For developers ==
-Please see [[Development:Workshop]] for more information on the module infrastructure and ways how to extend provided functionality by developing own Workshop subplugins.
-== See also ==
-* [http://moodlefairy.posterous.com/a-brief-journey-into-the-moodle-20-workshop A Brief Journey into the Moodle 2.0 Workshop] at moodlefairy's posterous
-* [[Workshop module/Tutorial]]
-* [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 separately grade the quality of the assignment and the self assessment.
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