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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BTW | ||
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Abbreviation for "By The Way". | ||
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. | ||