Moodle encourages exploration and interaction among students and teachers and also between them. As a course designer and teacher, you will have the most tools at your disposal if you work with this tendency and make your learning experiences as interactive as possible. Creating courses with forums, peer-assessed workshops, journals, surveys, and interactive lessons is more work than creating a course from a series of static web pages. However, it is also more engaging and effective, and you will find that it is worth the effort to use Moodle's many interactive features.

While teaching an online course in Moodle, remember that Moodle enables you to add, move, and modify course material and grading tools on-the-fly. If it is permitted by your institution's policies, don't hesitate to change a course in response to the students' needs.

Finally, learn the basics of Moodle's architecture, and at least read over the 'installation' and 'configuration' in Chapter 2. Don't be afraid of the technology. If you can master the difficult art of teaching, you can master using Moodle to its full potential.