The workshop is worth exploring because of the value of peer-to-peer assessment to your students. Having come this far with the use of Moodle in the teaching of History, the workshop is an Aladdin's Cave of options and experiences for your students some heartening, some chastening, but all valuable in the context of learning how to learn. It is an innovative, diagnostic, and truly cross-curricular tool.
Immediate success with workshops involves:
Knowing your assessment requirements from the start
Knowing the grading strategy to impose
Making appropriate use of weighting
Framing simple, smart questions
Having an appropriate sample exercise
Longer term success with workshops involves:
Being prepared to switch between phases to adjust deadlines
Experimenting with the order in which tasks are undertaken
Finding out how to make assessors anonymous
Producing league tables of results
It is appropriate to conclude with this chapter because the workshop encapsulates so much that is wonderful about using...