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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URL | ||
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A Uniform Resource Locator is the address that is used to reach a website. For example, http://moodle.org/ | ||
wwwroot | ||
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This is the setting inside config.php that tells Moodle where it is installed. It has to be a full URL to the web site's "natural" address. Some web sites may work under more than one address (for example www.example.com and example.com) but you should pick the main one.
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XHTML | ||
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XHTML will eventually replace HTML as the language used to program web pages for display in your web browser. It's actually very similar to HTML, but has stricter rules about the formatting. As the world moves to XHTML web browsers will display pages more consistently, and the web will also be more accessible to people with disabilities. | ||
SQL | ||
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short for 'Structured Query Language' (I entered this entry only because a forum search for 'firebird' also brought up ALL the entries that included 'sql' even as a substring as e.g. in 'mysqladmin'.)
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DRM | ||
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Digital rights management (DRM) is the umbrella term
referring to any of several technical methods used to handle the
description, layering, analysis, valuation, trading and monitoring of
the rights held over a digital work. In the widest possible sense, the
term refers to any such management. | ||
FUD | ||
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Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Negative statements made with no real supporting evidence designed to discourage people from taking a particular course of action. This could be done with malicious intent (e.g. to put potential customers off a competing product), or innocently by passing on received wisdom that is incorrect. | ||
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Proof Of Concept - a prototype created to show that an idea is technically fesible. While the prototype probably isn't suitable for real-world use, it provides a starting point for discussion and design of a real solution. | |||
Shibboleth | ||
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Shibboleth is not only a kind of linguistic password that
identifies one as a member of an 'in' group, it's also the name of a middleware project of Internet2. The Shibboleth project is developing architectures, policy structures, practical technologies and an open source implementation (also called Shibboleth) to support inter-institutional sharing of (web) resources subject to access controls. Some key concepts of Shibboleth are:
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