I use the workshopmoule since one year very, very often. More then 260 Students are using this for giving feedbacks on their works. Have a short look: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=15081#71981 and maybe to the German Moodle-Forum, your workshop in action was the star of our conference

I use this for students to get 40% of their final grades JUST for doing the work, for training, NO real grading from me  !!!!!!!!
This cooperation guarantees 40% of the final grade... if somebody will not do that workshops, they will miss some % ...

BUT:

• If I use this just for training, its a lot of work for me to open each contribution, doing nothing but giving the maximum points and no comment and saving it. 
• I need that grades for students to get the 40%
  • A Button: "All participants will get the max-grades of this workshop and a short neutral comment would help a lot.
    Maybe we (from the germanspeaking groupe) will develop a sql script to do that job, but we found out, its very, very difficult to find the correct tables ....
  • A list which shows me all participants of a course, which did NOT take part and maybe an email reminder to do this in time ...
  • And a possibility to change from one phase to the next with predefined time would help a lot ...

Ray, if this may be my christmas presents , you will get one from Austria  (but no virtual one, but a real Austrian surprise ...)

Greetings from Austria

Peter