Activities in Moodle are educational things to do. They include, for example:
discussing a topic in a forum, writing a journal entry, submitting an
assignment, or completing a quiz.
Glossary of common terms
This glossary defines a number of words you will see used often in discussions about Moodle - you'll find them highlighted throughout this course.
If you wish to import this glossary to your Moodle site, you can download this file of exported entries: glossary_of_common_terms_20101214.xml.
Please feel free to add new words here!
| Moodle terms |
AMOS
An acronym for Automated Manipulation of Strings, Moodle's translation tool located at lang.moodle.org.
Bitnami Stack
A Bitnami Stack provides a single application LAMP, WAMP or MAMP for Moodle installations. This approach offers a good solution to Users who want a test site on a stand alone computer. The Bitnami Stack also provides a more stable environment for adding additional PHP applications than other, similar solutions.
BMA
The Branded Moodle App (BMA) is a mobile app customisation service offered by Moodle HQ.
For more information visit https://moodle.com/branded-app/
context
In Moodle, the term "context" may have a specific meaning.
A Moodle context is a place where permissions are assigned to a user (usually through a role). In Moodle, contexts are layered in a hierachry. Some examples: a site is the overall context; each course category is a context in the site; each course is a context in it's course category; each topic/section is a context and the resources and activities in a topic/section are contexts. Blocks, filters and special pages are contexts that are at minimum part of the site context. Permissions are passed down automatically. For example, a user who has a teacher role in a course will be assigned that role when a Forum context is created. Roles for individuals or groups can be changed in a context. This makes it possible for one user to be a teacher in one context and a student in another.
Cron
Cron is an Automatic sytem in moodle that sends out messages to the system through.
- 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
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
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
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.