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Glossary: Glossary of common terms

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	MoodleCloud by Colin Fraser - Tuesday, 19 December 2017, 3:28 PM
	MoodleCloud is Moodle hosting from the people that make Moodle. See https://moodlecloud.com for details.

	MSSQL by Colin Fraser - Monday, 20 June 2016, 8:46 PM
	One of the database types supported by Moodle's implementation of the database interface layer. There are a large number of implementations of MSSQL, and it would appear that Moodle works with the latest versions.

	MUA by Emma Richardson - Thursday, 28 January 2016, 2:28 AM
	Moodle Users Assocation

	Multiple Choice Question by Jon Bolton - Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 8:13 PM
	A multiple-choice question (MCQ) is composed of two parts: a stem that identifies the question or problem, and a set of alternatives or possible answers that contain a key that is the best answer to the question, and a number of distractors that are plausible but incorrect answers to the question. It is one of the core question types in Moodle. More information: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Question_types https://docs.moodle.org/en/Multiple_Choice_question_type Useful reading: Multiple-Choice Testing in Education: Are the Best Practices for Assessment Also Good for Learning? MCQs with 1 correct answer & 2 distractors tend to be more valid & reliable Top 10 stupid mistakes in design of Multiple Choice questions (external site) Related Moodle plugins: All-or-Nothing Multiple Choice Matrix question MTF (ETH) OU multiple response

	MySQL by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 22 June 2016, 7:28 AM
	MySQL is the world's most popular open source database, recognized for its speed and reliability.

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	nickname by ben reynolds - Friday, 17 May 2013, 3:43 PM
	A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. Nickname often denotes the diminutive form of a person's legal first name, or it denotes an alternative for a person's legal first name. Diminutive: "Ben" for "Benjamin." Alternative: "ian" for "Choon." See also, Customised usernames, user profile field, friendly name.

	nightly by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 2:25 PM
	A Moodle Nightly is built automatically every day from the most recent code, and is available from the Moodle.org download page. It can be useful if you don't have CVS, but you want to try the latest features. It can also contain bugs, since they may not have been well-tested yet.

	NZVLE Project by Martín Langhoff - Friday, 3 June 2005, 1:29 PM
	NZ Open Source VLE Project is a New Zealand-based project, hosted at Eduforge.org It is helping Moodle adoption as part of a greater project of developing OSS e-learning application software for deployment throughout New Zealands education sector. System integration of portal website framework, lcms, content creation tools and modular toolkit.

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	Oodle-Moodle by Tom Murdock - Saturday, 4 October 2003, 6:50 AM
	A symptom or psychoses prompted by too much Moodling. Oodle-Moodle often manifests itself in relationships that have been stunted while Moodling. Husbands, wives, and children may ask an oodled soul to "step away from the machine" and to communicate once again with hand gestures and verbal cues rather than emoticons. Might be contagious.

	OP by Helen Foster - Friday, 26 February 2016, 5:01 PM
	Short for Original Poster, in other words the person starting the discussion.