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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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. | ||
Steve Bilton |
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 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] | |||
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. | ||
Sakshi Goel |
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BTW | ||
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Abbreviation for "By The Way". | ||
SOP | ||
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Standard Operating Procedure. | ||
Robert Leskovar |
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RSS | |||
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RSS is a Web content syndication format. (extracted from http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) | |||
Rob Hillis |
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Firefox | |||
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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by The Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, illumos and Solaris operating systems. (Entry edited by Helen Foster to update the information. Original entry 10 February 2004.) | |||
 Ray Lawrence |
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| INAL | |
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An abbreviation of "I'm not a lawyer". | ||