In Moodle 3.0 Workshops are very easy to set up. The Workshop is an activity module, and appears in the activity menu.
Let's set up a Workshop that allows our students to work individually and to collaborate in creating and assessing creative writing. In this case, the students will review the recently discovered manuscript fragments written by Sappho, the ancient Greek poetess, and they will attempt to reconstruct and recreate the work. They will fill in the gaps missing in the manuscript, where words do not appear.
Then, the students will read each other's invented manuscripts and will assess them.
Let's start by adding a new Workshop to our Ancient Humanities course. It will fit in the, Lyric Poetry unit.
In the Workshop name field, enter the name of the Workshop. Students will see this on the course homepage.
Description field. This field can be a description of the Workshop and/or instructions for completing the work. The following example illustrates...