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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W Page |
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LambdaMOO | ||
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MOO - LambdaMOO Server | ||
 Desi Paneva |
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| host | |
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Any computer on a network that offers services or connectivity to other computers on the network. A host has an IP address associated with it. | ||
Tabitha Parker (was Roder) |
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IMO | |||
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In My Opinion... sometimes... IMHO - In My Humble Opinion | |||
 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] | |||
Dan Poltawski |
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Frankenstyle | |||
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Frankenstyle is a moodle developer term which refers to the naming convention that is used to uniquely identify a Moodle plugin based on the type of plugin and its name. You can find more information about it on the dev docs wiki. | |||
MLP | |||
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Mindless Link Propagation | |||
Jurgis Pralgauskis |
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CSCL | ||
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Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. It has much to do with internet and social constructivism ;) | ||
Lesson | ||
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The Lesson module in Moodle allows a series of pages to be entered. Each page can have a question at the end, and depending on the answers a student gives can lead them to any other page. (discussion) | ||
Jamie Pratt |
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AMFPHP | |||
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AMFPHP is a 'remoting server'. It is a piece of software that you install on your server that allows Flash movies to seamlessly talk to PHP. More info here : | |||
 Idoia Puente |
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| RELOAD | |
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Reusable eLearning Object Authoring & Delivery | ||