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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MAMP | |||
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MariaDB | |||
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MariaDB is community developed database based on popular database MySQL. MariaDB was forked from MySQL, and maintains many of the same features, APIs and commands used in MySQL. MariaDB can be accessed for administration using PHPMyAdmin, the same tool used for MySQL. MariaDB uses the "XtraDB" storage engine which is a drop-in replacement of InnoDB used by MySQL and a new storage engine called Aria. | |||
meta tag | |||
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Meta Data is data about data, describing the type of data under discussion. Meta tags in HTML are used to identify which version of HTML is in use, the language (both used by the browser to parse, or interpret the code) and other technical information. Two special meta tags of great interest to web weavers are the content and keyword tags. These provide special information that's often used by search engines to enhance retrieval of the page. | |||
MID | ||
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Moodle Installation Directory | ||
Migrate | ||
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The term used to describe moving a Moodle site from one server to another. | ||
MLP | |||
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Mindless Link Propagation | |||
Moodle | ||
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Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, but now it's just a name. It's also a verb: "I try and moodle every day!" | ||
Moodle App Plans | ||
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Moodle App Plans are functionality levels for the official mobile app. The available plans are Free, Pro and Premium. You can learn more about them at apps.moodle.com and join the discussion in the forum here. | ||
Moodle Docs | |||
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Moodle Docs is the Moodle Documentation wiki, where the Moodle community documents Moodle. There are separate wikis for each version of Moodle. | |||