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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DAISY | ||
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Digital Accessible Information SYstem. DAISY refers to a digital book designed for people with vision impairment difficulties. Just like a SCORM or an EPUB file, a DAISY book consists of different (text, image, audio) digital files. | ||
 | UTSL | |
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"Use The Source, Luke". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTSL | ||
MID | ||
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Moodle Installation Directory | ||
Bitnami Stack | |||
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A Bitnami Stack provides a single application LAMP, WAMP or MAMP for Moodle installations. This approach offers a good solution to Users who want a test site on a stand alone computer. The Bitnami Stack also provides a more stable environment for adding additional PHP applications than other, similar solutions. | |||
IANAD | ||
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I Am Not A Developer - a response when answering technical question if suggesting an action that may need more input from a Moodle Developer. | ||
 | IMHO | ||
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In My (Humble|Honest) Opinion | |||
OS or Operating System | ||
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Operating System in computing is defined as a system software that: i.controls hardware and serves as interface between user and hardware. ii.controls input and output of data or infomation iii.serves as a platform for managing general applications/software or customized software | ||
PMA | |||
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phpMyAdmin. A tool to manage your Moodle database with, if you have Admin access rights. Used with MySQL and MariaDB database servers. | |||
WIMP | |||
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Its a combination of server setup for any website/web based application, where Operating platform (Windows), web server (IIS), database servers (MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server) application server (PHP), hence the term WIMP Other similar combination based on Windows platform can be WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP). | |||