Moodle offers several features that are of special interest to teachers. These focus on determining how well your students are progressing through a course. Reports and logs show you who has done what on your site, or in your course. Also, grades not only tell you how well your students are scoring, but can also be curved and weighted very easily.
Being able to generate student progress reports can be a very useful tool as you prepare documents that detail the kind of work your students are doing, their time spent on tasks, and their completion rates. If you are required to generate statistics for student success or persistence, you will find Moodle's reports and logs a lifesaver.
Also, if you are required to document when students first log in to a course, and when they were last active, you'll find the reports and logs to be extremely helpful...