Chapter 13: Features for Teachers: Logs, Reports, and Guides

Some of the most useful new features of Moodle 4.0 have to do with automatically generating progress reports that help students as well as teachers. For example, there is a new activity completion indicator that tracks the student's progress on their assigned tasks in each course. Similarly, the Dashboard has an updated Timeline block and a highly functional Calendar block that bring all the course deadlines together on one page.

For administrators, there are performance reports that have to do with the functioning of Moodle. This new feature of Moodle can be found by accessing the Site Administration menu, and following this path: Site administration > Reports > Report builder > Custom reports. Thus, the administrator can build custom reports that are useful for different constituencies within the organization, ranging from students, teachers, managers, and administrators.

For teachers, tracking progress...