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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HIG | ||
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PostgreSQL | |||
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PostgreSQL is a full-featured open-source database with many enterprise features, including:
See http://www.postgresql.org/ for more information. | |||
flame | |||
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(n.) A searing e-mail or newsgroup message in which the writer attacks another participant in overly harsh, and often personal, terms. Flames are an unfortunate, but inevitable, element of unmoderated conferences. | |||
spam | |||
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Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup. In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers. There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam: Nobody wants it or ever asks for it. No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree. Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people. source | |||
Flat File | ||
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Location: Flat file edit settings link in Administration > Courses > Enrolments
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Front page | ||
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The front page is the initial page seen by someone reaching a Moodle site. It is the site home page. See the documentation Front page for more details. | ||
nickname | ||
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A nickname is a descriptive name given in place of or in addition to the official name of a person, place or thing. | ||
AMOS | ||
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An acronym for Automated Manipulation of Strings, Moodle's translation tool located at lang.moodle.org. | ||
Firebird | |||
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Firebird is a fully featured and powerful RDBMS and is derived from Borland InterBase 6.0 source code, which has more than 20 years of handling databases from just a few KB to many Gigabytes with good performance and almost free of maintenance! It is open source and has no dual license. Below is a list of some of the Firebird’s major features:
Firebird is financially supported by Firebird Foundation which get his founds from company donations and paid membership subscriptions. See http://www.firebirdsql.org/ for more information. | |||