Workshop

Great stuff !

One of the first steps in the workshop set-up is preparing the assessment form. On contrary to the current version, teachers will be able to modify the assessment form until there is a first peer-assessment done. Assessment form is specific for the current grading strategy used in the workshop. Here, you can see how it looks with the default Accumulative grading strategy.

Here is how the form defined by the teacher is used by a peer to assess an assigned submission.

Here you can see how the random allocation (it est assigning submission to peers to assess) is done. By various combinations of allocation settings, the teachers can repetitively play with the tool until they are happy with the set-up.

Hi David,

this looks really cool. I like it a lot! Now I know what you must've spent your summer doing. Hope you have been able to catch at least a bit of sun

Thank you so much,

Stephan

PS: just thought that "Students can assess without having submitted anything" would possibly be better than "Users can assess without their own submission" But I may be wrong...

This is great David. I look forward to following the way the New Workshop develops. It always was my favourite module.

This is how teachers define the assessment form, when the Workshop uses "Number of errors" grading strategy (currently known as "Error banded"). The teacher defines a set of "assertions", ie propositions that may be evaluated and answered with "Yes/Good/Correct" or "No/Bad/Error". The grade for submission is based on the number of bad/error/missing aspects of the submitted work.
The assertions can be weighted. The assertion with a weight X is calculated X-times when mapping the number of errors to a grade.

And this is how the assessment form is displayed to the peer to make the review. Note the submission being reviewed is displayed in a similar way as a post in the forum module (there is no submission attachment here in the example, just a piece of online text). I use a very new feature from Moodle 2.0 called "output rendering" to display the submission. This will allow not only to modify the CSS styling but also the whole HTML generated by the Workshop module. So experienced themers may tweak the output to fit their unlimited creativity's needs

The new version introduces a new user interface element called Workshop planner. Basically it displays all workshop phases (stages) and highlights the current phase. For every phase, a list of tasks the user is expected to do is provided. So the Workshop planner quickly informs both workshop participants (students) and moderators (teachers) what they are expected to do right now.
The planner populates tasks dynamically for every user to provide relevant and up-to-date information about the current state of the whole activity. Using the planner, moderators (teachers) shall easily recognize the progress of participants' work and get a quick overview of how many of them have submitted their work, finished their reviews etc.

From the technical point of view, the tool uses the new HTML output machinery. Thanks to that, advanced themers can not only tweak how the planner is CSS-styled but also to change the HTML output completely .

See the attached picture for an example of what the planner may display to the Workshop moderator during the Submission phase.

... and here is how the planner may look like to a student during the peer assessment phase.

"Rubric" is a grading strategy that merges current "Rubric" and "Criterion" into a single assessment type. The assessment form consists of a set of criteria. For each criterion, several levels are defined, every level having a grade and definition. There will be an option whether the form should be display in a "list" format (as illustrated in the attached screenshot) or in a "grid" format* (as rubrics are usually displayed).

Attached, you can find how the assessment form might look. Thanks to http://www.nald.ca/CLR/Btg/ed/evaluation/multimedia.htm#student for the Rubric data. Also, note how Workshop integrates into the new side blocks - Navigation block and Setting block

*) Actually, displaying the form in a grid is not so easy due to the limitations of the underlying form library.