Workshop strategies
Workshops can be ungraded, peer-graded, instructor-graded, or a combination of peer- and instructor-graded. Workshops enable you to create very specific assessment criteria for graders to use. Also, workshops let you set due dates to submit grading work. You can use these and other features to build a strategy to make the best use of workshops within your courses:
Bear in mind that if you include peer assessments and required peer interactions, you'll be facilitating peer-to-peer learning. In other words, students will be learning from each other as they collaborate and create joint projects.
Peer assessment of submissions
One strategy for workshops is to have students assess each other's work before that same work is submitted as a graded assignment. For example, you can create a workshop in which students assess each other's subject matter, outlines, and hypotheses for their term papers, or they can assess each...