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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VM | ||
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Virtual Machine usually called a VM is a self-contained application environment which acts as dedicated hardware. | ||
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WAF | ||
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A web application firewall (WAF) is a specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service. By inspecting HTTP traffic, it can prevent attacks exploiting a web application's known vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and improper system configuration. | ||
WAMP | ||
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Web Developer Extension for Firefox | |||
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This is an add-on or extension for the Firefox browser that adds a variety of tools useful for web developers manipulating HTML and CSS. It is available from Mozilla Update though the most recent version is usually available from the author's website Highly recommended. | |||
WebDAV | |||
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WebDAV stands for "Web-based
Distributed Authoring and Versioning" and is
a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol
which allow users to collaboratively edit
and manage files on remote web servers. WebDAV is sometimes shortened to DAV. Since at least 1998, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups have published RFCs on WebDAV and related issues. These publications are considered specifications for versioning, access control, searching, and ordering of resources. Many of the specifications have been implemented in software that is present in many open source and commercial offerings. See webdav.org for more information. Also, search the web for articles about WebDAV in the popular computing press. | |||
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). | |||
WIP | ||
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Work In Progress.
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wwwroot | ||
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This is the setting inside config.php that tells Moodle where it is installed. It has to be a full URL to the web site's "natural" address. Some web sites may work under more than one address (for example www.example.com and example.com) but you should pick the main one.
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WYSIWYG | ||
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WYSIWYG is an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get". | ||
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XAMPP-lite | ||
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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. | ||