Create and fill in a workshop

The workshop is the heart of Moiki EDU: an activity you prepare, then launch with a class. This page describes, screen by screen, what is common to every workshop, whatever its type. To choose the type and follow the guide step by step, see Choose your activity.

Everything happens in Workshops.

The list of workshops. — Your workshops, with their sessions. The **New workshop** button is at the top right.

Create the workshop

The New workshop button opens a two-screen wizard.

1. The workshop type

The first screen of the wizard: three cards, Reading, Writing and Collaborative writing, with a sentence under each. — The first screen: three types, one sentence for each.

The type decides what students will do and the tracking you will get. Each has its full guide:

Reading: students read and play a story. See A reading workshop.
Writing: students write their own story. See A writing workshop.
Collaborative writing: students write a master story together. See A collaborative writing workshop.

Choose, then Next.

2. The name and the description

The second screen of the wizard: a required Name field, a Description field, and the Create workshop button. — The second screen: a name, a description, and it is created.

Only the name is required. The description can be completed later, like everything else. Create workshop takes you to its page.

The page of a new workshop

The workshop exists, but it is empty: its label says Incomplete.

The page of a reading workshop that has just been created: the Incomplete label, an “Add the story to read” box with its Create the story button, then the workshop block and the Sessions block. — A reading workshop that has just been created. The dashed box says what is missing.

What is missing first is the story. The box in the Stories block says so in the words of the type:

in reading, Add the story to read,
in writing, Add a starting story (optional),
in collaborative writing, Create the master story.

Add a story

The Create the story button of the box, like the Add button of the block, opens the same two-entry menu.

Pick one of my stories

A panel lists your stories, with a search. Select the one you want, then Add.

The “Choose an existing one” panel: a search field and the grid of the teacher's stories, with their covers. — Your stories, to attach in one click.

Create from a template

The New story panel offers a starting structure, asks for a name, and lets you pick a theme. Choose a template opens the template gallery.

The gallery of story templates: Blank, Classic tale, Choice pyramid, Mystery and investigation, each with its level and its Choose button. — The story templates. Each one states its level.

Create the story creates it, attaches it to the workshop, and opens it in the editor. Closing the editor brings you back to the workshop page.

Fill in the workshop

On the workshop page, everything is edited directly: click an element, type, and Moiki saves as you go. It is organized in blocks.

Stories

The stories of the workshop. Their number and their role depend on the type (a story to read, a starting story, a master story): your guide says which. On each story, four actions: Edit the story, which opens it in the editor to change it, Read the story, which plays it in the reader, View in the editor, which opens it read-only so you can look at how it is built without risk of touching it, and removing it from the workshop.

The workshop: description, objectives, instructions

This is what your students will read before they start. Three tabs, and a dot next to the ones that are filled in.

Description: the presentation of the workshop, visible to your students and in the catalog.
Objectives: what students will learn or produce.
Instructions: the run, the steps, the practical instructions.

The workshop block, Objectives tab: a bulleted list of three objectives in a text editor. — The **Objectives** tab.

The workshop block, Instructions tab: two paragraphs of instructions in a text editor. — The **Instructions** tab. Students find them again throughout the activity.

Info

The subject, the level and the skills the workshop relates to. They are used by the catalog and its filters. Fill in opens a window with the three lists.

Resources

Files to make available to students (documents, images, sounds, videos). The whole set fits in 15 MB per workshop on the free plan, 50 MB with a paid plan, and a single document cannot exceed 15 MB. Drop them in the frame, or click to browse.

Cover and credits

The image that stands for the workshop. If you do nothing, Moiki sets a default one. You can take it From a story of the workshop, or Upload an image. Underneath, the Credits: sources, authors and licenses of the media used.

Writing scope, Sessions, catalog

Student writing scope, on writing and collaborative writing workshops: what students can create in the editor. See A writing workshop.
Sessions: the sessions already launched, and the button to launch one. See Launch and track a session.
Publish to the catalog: to share the workshop with other teachers. See The catalog.

See the workshop as your students do

At the top of the page, a toggle switches from The workshop, where you set everything, to Preview, which shows the workshop as your class will see it. The preview has two views.

Page is the page the student opens: the cover, the title, the stories, your texts.

The preview of a workshop, Page view: the “As your class will see it” note, the cover, the title and the story to read. — The **Page** view: what the class will see, and nothing else.

Card is the thumbnail they see in their list of workshops.

The preview of a workshop, Card view: the thumbnail with its cover, its type, its title, its author and its description. — The **Card** view.

Ready to launch

When the workshop has what it needs, its label goes from Incomplete to Ready to launch. You can then launch it with a class: that creates a session. See Launch and track a session. As soon as a session is running, the label says so instead: 1 running session, or the number of running sessions.

Rework a workshop while a session is running

As soon as a session is in progress, the workshop page shows a reminder. What a change does depends on the type:

In reading, stories are read live. A change reaches students at once, and those who had started may have to restart their reading from the beginning.
In writing, the scope and the instructions apply at once. The starting story, though, is copied to each student on their first access: reworking it changes nothing for those who have already opened theirs.
In collaborative writing, the parts students have already written do not change, but the assembled story follows the master story: an edit reaches it at the next integration. Fragment instructions and the writing scope, however, apply right away. See If you rework the master story along the way.

Duplicate, delete

Duplicate creates a copy of the workshop, to adapt for another class or another year.

Delete asks for confirmation, and says what will go with the workshop: its sessions, and the students’ work. A checkbox offers to delete the story too, when it is only used by this workshop.

The Delete workshop window: a warning about the session and the students' work, an “Also delete the source story” checkbox, and the Cancel and Delete buttons. — Deleting takes the sessions and the students’ work with it.

Find the workshops built on a story

The same story can serve several workshops. To know which ones rest on it, the Workshops entry lists them, wherever you started from.

The Workshops window of a story: a workshop card with its type and its sessions, and a button to create a workshop. — The workshops built on a story, with their sessions.

It opens from two places:

from the editor’s action bar, when the story is open,
from the Stories list, through the card’s menu.

Each workshop shows its type and its sessions there, and an arrow takes you to its page. If no workshop uses the story yet, the window offers to create one.