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Site: Moodle - Open-source learning platform | Moodle.org
Course: Moodle in English (Moodle in English)
Glossary: Glossary of common terms
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DAISY

by Guillermo Madero - Wednesday, 27 August 2014, 10:21 PM
 

Digital Accessible Information SYstem. DAISY refers to a digital book designed for people with vision impairment difficulties. Just like a SCORM or an EPUB file, a DAISY book consists of different (text, image, audio) digital files.

Michael Milette

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.

sushumna rao

Data center

by sushumna rao - Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 3:23 PM
 

Data centers are repositories (virtual or physical) to house computers and their components (servers, networking systems etc).

Martin Dougiamas

database

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 2:16 PM
 
An electronic collection of information, stored in tables of data. For example, Moodle contains a table of all users in a site. There are many brands of database software, but most people use MySQL.
Martin Dougiamas

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.
Jason Jolaoso

Depreciated

by Jason Jolaoso - Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 8:17 PM
 
A programming language class, method, syntax or API that is no longer important or useful. In due course , it will become extinct.
Jenny Watt

DHTML

by Jenny Watt - Sunday, 9 November 2003, 3:45 AM
 

Dynamic HTML (DHTML) describes using HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create dynamic content on pages. A menu or other objects on a web page that respond to the user without requiring an additional trip to the server or a plug-in application are examples of DHTML in use.

Martin Dougiamas

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.
Martin Dougiamas

domain

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 2:18 PM
 
A name given to a computer or a group of computers. eg moodle.org. You can buy new domain names from a domain name registrar, of which there are many.
Martin Dougiamas

download

by Martin Dougiamas - Friday, 6 February 2004, 9:53 PM
 

To move your files from a server "down" to your personal computer. Also see FTP and upload.

You can download Moodle via the Moodle download page.