Summary
Moodle offers several options for student-to-student and student-to-teacher interactions. When deciding which social activities to use, consider the level of structure and amount of student-to-student/student-to-teacher interaction that you want. For example, chats and wikis offer relatively unstructured environments with lots of opportunities for student-to-student interaction. They are good ways of relinquishing some control of the class to students. A forum offers more structure because entries are classified on the basis of topics. It can be moderated by the teacher, making it even more structured. A workshop offers the most structure, by virtue of the set assessment criteria that students must use when evaluating each other's work.
Workshops are collaborative. They set the stage for students to learn from each other. Even more than that, they include both formative and summative assessments, which is to say that students can check their progress toward achieving...
