Moodle's assignments 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 take the place of many static web pages, since they consist of web pages with a question at the end of each page. A lesson enables you to present information to a student, test the student on the information, and then present either remedial information or continue to the next topic.

Feedback and Choice give teachers the opportunity to assess students, their attitudes, and their satisfaction with a course. Feedback is especially useful for assessing the class's attitude and experience at the beginning of the course. You can also use feedback to create surveys for people who are not even...