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!
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Sakshi Goel |
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SOP | ||
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Standard Operating Procedure. | ||
Sam Mudle |
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Postnuke | ||
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Postnuke is a free, open source, database driven php website. Many Moodle people use postnuke as a front end page to forums, calendars, guestbook and other non-education specific activities. There are literaly thousands of free themes, and hundreds of open source modules that a postnuke site can use. However, the administration and permission system UI for postnuke can be daunting for newbies, and often requires some basic knowledge of php coding to implement many tasks. A great website for educators to start at is the postnuke education forum. | ||
 Simon Pavitt |
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| CPanel | ||
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Many webhosting companies provide CPanel (short for Control Panel) as a convenient, graphical menu system which allow users to administer their own webspace. For more information go to: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpanel] | |||
Steve Bilton |
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sushumna rao |
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Data center | ||
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Data centers are repositories (virtual or physical) to house computers and their components (servers, networking systems etc). | ||
VM | ||
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Virtual Machine usually called a VM is a self-contained application environment which acts as dedicated hardware. | ||
Tabitha Parker (was Roder) |
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IMO | |||
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In My Opinion... sometimes... IMHO - In My Humble Opinion | |||
Tim Hunt |
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Moodle Docs | |||
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Moodle Docs is the Moodle Documentation wiki, where the Moodle community documents Moodle. There are separate wikis for each version of Moodle. | |||
 Tom Murdock |
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| Oodle-Moodle | |
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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. | ||
Usman Asar |
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MariaDB | |||
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MariaDB is community developed database based on popular database MySQL. MariaDB was forked from MySQL, and maintains many of the same features, APIs and commands used in MySQL. MariaDB can be accessed for administration using PHPMyAdmin, the same tool used for MySQL. MariaDB uses the "XtraDB" storage engine which is a drop-in replacement of InnoDB used by MySQL and a new storage engine called Aria. | |||