Moodle's assignments, journals, and lessons enable you to create course material that students interact with. This interaction is more engaging, and usually more effective, than courses consisting of static material that the students view. While you will probably begin creating your course by adding static material, the next step should usually be to ask, 'How can I add interactivity to this course?' Lessons can even take the place of many static web pages, as they consist of web pages with a question at the end of each page.

Survey and Choice give teachers the opportunity to assess students, their attitudes towards learning, and their satisfaction with a course. The ATTLS survey can become part of student's record, available to all teachers who have that student in a course. The COLLES (Preferred) survey can be used at the beginning of a course to assess the student's motivation and expectations, while the COLLES (Actual) can be used every few weeks to assess the students' satisfaction...