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MOODLE TERMS

	Cron by Jason Grey - Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 12:44 PM
	Cron is an Automatic sytem in moodle that sends out messages to the system through. EMail Rss Assignement Uploads (This is normally for the teachers - for notifications that a student has uploaded an assignment). For more information on Cron check the moodle docs page and your help section in moodle. Happy Moodleing.

	Dashboard by Michael Milette - Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 3:24 PM
	Dashboard is a customisable page in Moodle that provides users with links to their courses and activities within them, such as unread forum posts and upcoming assignments. See the documentation Dashboard for more details.

	dataroot by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 2:17 PM
	The place where Moodle can save uploaded files. This directory should be readable and writeable by the web server user but it should not be accessible directly via the web.

	dirroot by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 2:20 PM
	The dirroot is the name for the directory in which you have installed Moodle. It's a setting in config.php that must be entered correctly.

	Flat File by ben reynolds - Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 8:17 PM
	Location: Flat file edit settings link in Administration > Courses > Enrolments A flat file allows enrolment management (enrol or unenrol) of existing users in existing course. The file is read one time by Moodle then erased. The file is located in the moodle file structure as a text file and Cron provides the timing when it is read. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Flat_file

	Frankenstyle by Dan Poltawski - Thursday, 7 March 2013, 12:40 PM
	Frankenstyle is a moodle developer term which refers to the naming convention that is used to uniquely identify a Moodle plugin based on the type of plugin and its name. You can find more information about it on the dev docs wiki.

	Front page by ben reynolds - Monday, 27 November 2017, 8:59 PM
	The front page is the initial page seen by someone reaching a Moodle site. It is the site home page. See the documentation Front page for more details.

	Grouping by Marty Jacobs - Friday, 25 September 2009, 3:16 PM
	A collection of groups, i.e. a group of groups! See the groupings documentation.

	IANAD by Colin Fraser - Thursday, 17 December 2015, 7:40 AM
	I Am Not A Developer - a response when answering technical question if suggesting an action that may need more input from a Moodle Developer.

	Lesson by Jurgis Pralgauskis - Friday, 26 November 2004, 9:47 PM
	The Lesson module in Moodle allows a series of pages to be entered. Each page can have a question at the end, and depending on the answers a student gives can lead them to any other page. (discussion)