Glossary of common terms

An anti-plagiarism module originally developed by Dan Marsden, but was redeveloped by Turnitin, who now maintain it, as a Third Party Plugin. John McGettrick is the Lead on behalf of Turnitin.   

From Apache Friends the Xampp-lite Moodle installation package is a one stop installer for Apache, PHP, MySQL and Moodle. Originally developed for its simplicity of installation, Xampp-lite was designed, essentially, for stand alone computers using Windows, so that courses could be developed offline. It is generally agreed that it is not a suitable environment for a production site.

Abbreviation for "By The Way".

Standard Operating Procedure.

Cron is an Automatic sytem in moodle that sends out messages to the system through.

• EMail
• 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.

• Federated Administration
• Access Control Based on Attributes
• Active Management of Privacy
• Standards Based
• Framework for Multiple, Scaleable Trust and Policy Sets (Federations)
• Standard Attribute Value Vocabulary

• Access to Moodle can be restricted very accurate (e.g. you allow only students from universities A, B and D to access your Moodle, but not students from universities C and E. Or you allow only medicine students.)
  
• User accounts are created automatically as soon as a user logs in the first time.
• The user profiles are set up automatically (e.g. the users firstname, surname and email address is inserted the first time a user logs in)
• The user profiles can automatically kept up-to date all the time
• So you don't have to care anymore for user management issues because this is basically handled by the Identity Provider of the Shibboleth user (e.g. the home university).
• Once Shibboleth users are authenticated, they can access other Shibboleth-enabled resources without loggin in another time. Due to this single sign-on mechanism, they e.g. can jump from one Moodle installation to another or the can access a Shibboleth-protected library or a web shop, always being authenticated.

• Automatic course enrollment according to Shibboleth attributes.
  

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.)