Temp page to gather workshop module information. Two options.
- add a pages (see below)
- expand workshop module page using pages below as headings, then use links to help files.
Looks like I am proposing to add 6 pages/heading to MoodleDocs and the Workshop category.
- [[Workshop grades]]
- [[Workshop assessments]]
- [[Workshop dates]]
- [[Workshop lists]]
- [[Workshop for Exercise users]]
- [[Add/Edit Workshop]] tradition name for settings page. Currently all settings are explained on other proposed pages. This would be short hand with links to other pages
- there should be a template for Workshop to make these pages handy to one another
- there should be links from assignment, when people do look up for workshop module phrase
- Checked with Helen. She suggests to wait for module to become more solid, see page comment.
Workshop module page
(this is what help says, make sure it is on current workshop module page)
A Workshop is a peer assessment activity with a huge array of options. It 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 in a variety of ways. The Workshop module is contributed by Ray Kingdon.
Workshop grades page
Number of Comments, Elements, Bands, Criteria or Rubrics
The number entered here determines how many items will be used in the assessments. Depending on the type of grading strategy, this number gives the number of comments, assessments elements, bands, criteria or categories (sets) of criteria in a rubric. Typically an assignment will have something between 5 to 15 assessment items, the actual number depending on the size and complexity of the assignment.
All assessments have a General Comments field. For a "No Grading" assignment the value given here determines the number of additional comment areas. It can be specified as zero and results in the assessment having only a single General Comments area.
Grade of Student Assessments
This is the maximum grade given to the assessments make by students of their own and/or other work. That is, the grade for their assessments. The actual grades for an assessment is calculated by the workshop module by comparing that assessment with the "best" assessment of the same submission. The "best" assessment is the one which is closest to the mean of all the assessments. (This is a "weighted" mean if the teacher's assessment are given a weight greater than one.) Note that if there is only one assessment of an submission, that single assessment is taken as the best. If there are two assessments of an submission, both are considered "best". Only when there are three or more assessments does the module start to make distinctions between the assessments.
This grade is sometimes called the "grading grade" and is not the maximum grade given to the work, that grade is called "Grade for Submissions".
A student's grade for the workshop is the sum of this grade and the grade for their submission(s). Thus if the (maximum) grade for the Student assessments is set at 20 and the (maximum) grade for submission is set to 80, then the (maximum) grade for the workshop is 100.
This value can be changed at any time and the effect on the grades seen by the students (and the teacher) is immediate.
The Grade of the Submissions
This value determines the maximum grade which can be awarded to a submission.
The overall grade for the workshop is the sum of the (average) grade of the student's assessments and the grade from their submission(s). Thus if the (maximum) grade for the student's assessments is set to 30 and the (maximum) grade for the submissions is 70 the (maximum) grade for the workshop is 100.
This value can be changed at any time and the effect on the grades seen by the students (and the teacher) is immediate.
Resubmitting assignments
By default, students cannot resubmit assignments, they are allowed only one submission.
If you turn this option on, then students will be allowed to submit more than one piece of work to this assignment. This may be useful if the teacher wants to encourage students to do better work by an iterative process.
The assessment of submissions is allocated on the basis of the number of assessments a piece of work has had. Thus new submissions from a student are likely to be candidates for peer assessment. However, if a student resubmits a number of pieces of work in quick succession then they are all equally likely to be assessed. The assignment does NOT give priority to the newest submission.
The student's final grade is based on their overall "grading grade" and the submission with the highest grade.
Workshop assessments page
Number of Assessments of Teacher's Examples
This number determines whether the students are asked to assess any example pieces of work before submitting their own work. If it is non-zero then each student must assess that number of example pieces of work. They cannot submit their own work until these assessments have been made.
Weight of Teacher's Assessments
This option, usually set at 1, can be used to either "switch off" any assessments made by the teacher, to give them an equal weight as the student assessments, or give them more weight than the student assessments.
The normal value for this option is 1. This gives the teacher's assessments the same weight as student assessments.
There may arise circumstances when it is felt that the students are consistently "over grading" assessments, that is giving their peers too high a grade. The opposite may happen when the peer grading is too low (but that is more unusual). The poor grading by the students can be compensated, to a degree, by increasing the value of this option. Setting the value to 5, for example, means that if there are 5 student assessments of each submission, say, then the teacher's assessment has the same weight (in dropping suspect assessments and in determining the grade) as all 5 of the student assessments. Further in the analysis of assessments, student assessments which do not agree with that of the teacher are more likely to be dropped when this option is greater than one. The remaining assessments are closer to the teacher's grade thus giving even more weight to the teacher's assessment.
This option can be changed at any time during the assignment.
The Over Allocation Level
This level determines whether the allocation of peer assessments to the class is balanced or not. Here the term "balanced" applies to the number of times each student submission is allocated for (peer) assessment. When the Over Allocation Level is set to ZERO, all the submissions are allocated the same number of times, that is, the allocation is balanced. When the Level is set to ONE then some of the submissions may be allocated once more than other allocations (and it follows from this that some of the submissions may be allocated once less than other allocations), that is the allocation is unbalanced. Similarly if the Level is set to TWO then a greater unbalance is allowed.
Ideally all peer assessments should be balanced. However, the disadvantage is that some students will not have their full quota of submissions to assess until AFTER the last student has submitted their work. When the Over Allocation Level is set to ONE, then most students will find that they have their full "quota" of submissions to assess and they do not have to wait for late submissions. Waiting for late submissions should be even rarer when the level is set to TWO.
So in a Workshop assignment where the number of peer assessments is set to 5, and there is no concerns that some of the submissions will be (peer) assessed 4 times, some 5 times and others 6 times, then the assignment will "flow" smoother and the students will not have to wait so long (if at all) for others to submit work if the Over Allocation Level is changed from its default value of ZERO and set to ONE.
Self Assessment
A workshop assignment can optionally include the student's own work in the set of pieces each student is asked to assess. This will mean that if, say, the number of student pieces of work each student has to assess is set at 5, then each student will be asked to assess 6 pieces of work, one of them being their own work.
If the number of student pieces of work is set to zero and the self assessment option is turned on then the assignment becomes a self-graded assignment.
Agreement of Assessments
A workshop assignment can have either of these characteristics:
- In the submission and assessment phase the students see the assessments made by other students. There is no feedback from the students who submitted the work to the students who made the assessment. That is, there is only one way feedback between peers on any one piece of work.
- In the submission and assessment phase the students see the assessments made by other students and they are allowed to comment on these assessments. They may agree or disagree with the (peer) assessment. If they agree with the assessment then the assessment stands and is used in the final calculations when determining the peer grade given to the particular piece of work. If, however, they do not agree with an assessment the student who made the assessment is given an opportunity to revise it. The revise/disagree loop can continue until either agreement is reached or the deadline is reached. An assessment which is still in "dispute" when the deadline is reached is not used in the final grades. This gives two way feedback between peers on each piece of work.
If the second method of working is chosen there is the option of switching off the display of grades. That is, if this "hide grades" option is exercised, only the comments in the assessment are shown to the student who work is being assessed. The grades are shown only after agreement has been reached (on the comments alone). Note that this option only effective when agreement on assessments is required.
Hide Grades before Agreement
This option can be used in a workshop assignment where there must be agreement between the students on each assessment. The default value is to show the student whose work is being assessed both the comments and the grades in the peer assessments. This may lead to more disputes than when the option is turned on and the assessments are shown without the grades.
If the option is taken to hide grades in the peer assessments the grades are revealed once agreement has been reached. This agreement will, of course, have been made only on the comments. If these comments do not reasonably match the grades then the student whose work is being assessed may well appeal to the teacher.
Hide Names from Students
A peer graded assignment can be graded anonymously. In this case the names (and any photos) of the students doing the grading are not shown. Only the (file) names of the submissions are used to identify the pieces of work being graded.
When the peer graded assignment is not graded anonymously, the pieces of work are shown with the names (and any photos) of the students who submitted the work. This may lead to bias in the gradings.
Note that if the teacher's grades are shown to the students these are never shown anonymously.
Workshop lists page
Sort of a catch all page, better title
The League Table of Submissions
The League Table lists the best submissions produced in the assignment. The number of entries can set to zero, a number between 1 and 20, 50 or 100. If set to zero then the League Table is not displayed. If it is set to a number between 1 and 20, 50 or 100 then that number of submissions are shown, for example, setting the number to 10 shows the top ten submissions.
Passwords
This field sets the "access" password for this exercise. The password can be up to 10 characters long. The password can be reset at any time during the workshop. Whether students are asked for the password to enter the workshop is determined by the "Use Password" option.
Workshop dates page
Submissions start and end dates
no help
Assessment start and end dates
no help
Release Teacher Grades date
This date can be used to withhold the assessments (and grades) made by the teacher until the given date. By default the date is set to the workshop's creation date and time. If the date is not changed then the teacher's assessments are available to the students a short time after they are done (the short time is typically half an hour, the "maxeditingtime"). Setting this option allows the teacher to withhold their own assessments until later in the assignment. For example if the teacher wishes to withhold their own assessments until the deadline date, then the Release date is set to the same date as the deadline.
Transitioning from Exercise Module to Workshop
"All of the features found in the current Exercise module can be found in the Workshop Module" ?
The primary functions of the Exercise module was that an assignment could be assessed by both the student(self) and the teacher. Additionally, the teacher could grade the quality of the students self assessment. All three assessments could make up the grade for any assignment.
If the number of student pieces of work is set to zero and the self assessment option is turned on then the assignment becomes a self-graded assignment.
