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Course: Moodle in English (Moodle in English)
Glossary: Glossary of common terms
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nickname

by ben reynolds - Friday, May 17, 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.

Martin Dougiamas

nightly

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, October 1, 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.
Martin Langhoff - Sailing

NZVLE Project

by Martín Langhoff - Friday, June 3, 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.