I am finding it difficult to figure out if I can even get Moodle to work to do the kind of teaching I have been assigned!
I am teaching a fiction writing workshop at a university in Lisbon. I will lecture face-to-face for three days, and then I will return to the U.S. to teach the rest of the course to the students who are still in Portugal. The university has suggested that I use Moodle.
What I want is pretty simple: I want students to be able to upload writing assignments. I want all of them to be able to read one another's assignments. And I want all of them to be able to discuss each assignment, being able to add further comments in response to what others have said.
In fact, a blog would be suitable for this where students could post stories as entries and then follow up with comments, except that blogs tend to be public.
Can I set up Moodle to do what I want? And can I do it without investing a lot of time to learn about Moodle features that I will not use? Thanks for any help! I think of myself as tech savvy, but this software is proving particularly difficult for me since it does so much more than what I need!
Workshop can do exactly what you want.
you have a lot of variables in the workshop module and probably it is a bit confusing at the start... The help files can give you some guidance. Most of the variables can be remain with the default value, but you have to consider:
If over allocation is set to 0, the peer-assessment must be balenced (that is, every assigmnetn uploaded is forced to be assessed by the same number of peer. this can origin this problem : Some students cannot assess
You have to decide if the student must asses their own work.
You can decide to give some examples to be assessed or give not:
You can also explore some different ways to assess. the easier is
But you can force the students to evaluate independently several criterions.
The complet list of options in the workshop module
you have a lot of variables in the workshop module and probably it is a bit confusing at the start... The help files can give you some guidance. Most of the variables can be remain with the default value, but you have to consider:
Over Allocation: | 2 1 0 | Self Assessment: | No Yes |
You have to decide if the student must asses their own work.
You can decide to give some examples to be assessed or give not:
Number of Assessments of Student Submissions: |
You can also explore some different ways to assess. the easier is
Number of Comments, Assessment Elements, Grade Bands, Criterion Statments or Categories in a Rubric: | 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 |
The complet list of options in the workshop module