Work in progress - W2: an easy-to-use Workshop module

Learning environments where all participants can present their ideas, where all contribute to discuss and assess those ideas are in our opinion essential to improve the learning process. Grading peers is also important to the development of motivation and sense of responsibility. The Moodle's workshop module seems to address this issues. However, this module is rarely used and, is planned to be removed from the next release. We run a set of tests and inquiries that led us to conclude that its usability is very low, its interface is generically pour-understandable and the final grades for the activity are usually surprising. In this work we present a reformulation of the workshop in which concerns the configuration interface, the administration module, and the final grades page. The preliminary results indicate an improvement of more than 300% of the usability. Future development plans include full integration of the code in the Moodle LMS and testing the new module for improvement and measuring of real usefulness.