Workshop

re 1: Yes, I am aware of this. When I was writing the code for that page, I was just afraid that putting both forms side by side could cause problems on smaller monitors. The solution might be to have a button at the top of the page switching between the horizontal and vertical layout (dynamically via JavaScript + CSS only). Can you please report such a feature request into the tracker so that we do not forget it?

re 2: This is intentional. If the original question (ie workshop assignment) is important for assessment, copy it into the instructions for assessment field in the workshop setting.

re 3: There are actually several ways how the teacher's input may influence the assessment - see the workshop module doc page for details. Shortly, you can:

• Modify weights of student's assessment. Eg if you increase the weight of the student who is right in your example, his/her vote will be as strong as the sum of votes of those five idiots. Alternatively you can set their weight to zero to effectively ignore them;
• Override the total calculated grade within the workshop so it pushes your manually set grade into the gradebook instead the one calculated;
• Provide your own assessment, possibly with the higher weight set
• Override the grade pushed into the gradebook

p.s. Even if they know those five are idiots, teachers should always think twice why five people agreed versus the only one was right (in the teacher's opinion). Maybe the students did not understand something, instructions were confusing etc. Such situation should always be considered as a valuable feedback for the teacher.