Moodle 2.0

Chapter 8
The Edit Settings page
The workshop activity is the most complex tool currently available in Moodle.
Workshops are designed so that a student's work can be submitted and offered for
peer review within a structured framework. Workshops provide a process for both
instructor feedback and peer feedback on open-ended assignments, such as essays
and research papers. They provide a place for the students in the class as well as
the teachers to make the best use of Moodle. There are easy-to-use interfaces for
uploading assignments, performing self-assessments, and peer reviews of other
students' papers. The key to the workshop is the scoring guide, which is a set of
specific criteria for making judgments about the quality of a given work. These are
several fields under workshop. They will be explained in the following sections.
Name and introduction
The settings under General partially answer the question: what will you have each
student do?
Your students will see and click on the Name. The Introduction should give
instructions for completing the workshop. If you want to provide printer-friendly
instructions, you can upload a .pdf file to the course files area, and put a link to this
document in the workshop description.
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