Moodle 2.0

Features for Teachers
In this demonstration course, the teacher wants all of the students to contribute
(post) to the glossary. So, the teacher will send a message to Student1, Student3, and
Student4. To do this, they select the students and then from the With selected users…
drop-down list, selects Send a message, as shown in the following screenshot:
This takes the teacher to a page where they can create and send a message. The
message will be sent to the students' email addresses, and will also be stored in
their Moodle messages.
Statistics
Statistics is a feature that is available only to Site Administrators. If you run a
website, you might be familiar with using site statistics to track the usage of your
site. These statistics are recorded by the web server and displayed using a statistics
analyzer. In Moodle, if the Administrator enables site statistics, Moodle will record
statistics about each course and the site, just as your web server records statistics
about your website. Moodle will also produce graphs to display the statistics,
similar to a statistics analyzer.
The statistics page shows how many hits the different pages in your Moodle site
have had. The Administrator can look at the hits for a given day or hour. The
statistics page does not show which users visited these pages. For that, you will
need to use the site logs.
If you enable site statistics, Moodle will record activity as it happens. Then, at a time
that you specify, Moodle will process the statistics to generate the graphs and charts
on the Statistics page. For a very active site, this processing can take a long time.
Therefore, the Administrator should specify a time when the site is not busy serving
students. Also, you do not want the statistics processing and backup routines to run
at the same time, so you should schedule them a few hours apart.
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