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Sam Mudle

Postnuke

by Sam Mudle - Friday, 13 January 2006, 4:26 PM
 

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.

http://www.postnuke.com/

A great website for educators to start at is the postnuke education forum.


moi!!! it is what is is...

Production Site

by Colin Fraser - Friday, 25 September 2009, 3:18 PM
 
A production site is site that is publicly operating, it has courses and is being used by anyone enrolled.

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moi!!! it is what is is...

Q'n'D

by Colin Fraser - Saturday, 5 May 2018, 9:37 AM
 

Quick and Dirty. Usually a reference to a specific kludge or a specific, rapid response to an immediate problem. 


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Idoia Puente

RELOAD

by Idoia Puente - Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 5:21 PM
 

Reusable eLearning Object Authoring & Delivery


Robert Leskovar

RSS

by Robert Leskovar - Friday, 25 June 2004, 3:15 AM
 

RSS is a Web content syndication format.
Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.
RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. Subordinate to the <rss> element is a single <channel> element, which contains information about the channel (metadata) and its contents.

(extracted from http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss)


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Cristi Ionescu

SCORM

by Cristi Ionescu - Friday, 29 September 2006, 11:35 PM
 

Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. It defines communications between client side content and a host system called the run-time environment (commonly a function of a learning management system). SCORM also defines how content may be packaged into a transferrable ZIP file.
After going through SCORM standards 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2004 first edition, the current latest version is SCORM 2004 2nd edition.


Martin Dougiamas

sections

by Martin Dougiamas - Monday, 6 October 2003, 11:10 PM
 
The areas within a course that hold activities are known as sections. This is a generic term that covers weeks and topics.

Martin Dougiamas

server

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 2:26 PM
 
This is where your web site or database, or both, resides. You may choose to run your own server or have a hosting provider look after this for you.

Lukas Haemmerle

Shibboleth

by Lukas Haemmerle - Saturday, 2 July 2005, 1:29 AM
 
Shibboleth is not only a kind of linguistic password that identifies one as a member of an 'in' group, it's also the name of a middleware project of Internet2.

The Shibboleth project is developing architectures, policy structures, practical technologies and an open source implementation (also called Shibboleth) to support inter-institutional sharing of (web) resources subject to access controls.

Some key concepts of Shibboleth are:
  • Federated Administration
  • Access Control Based on Attributes
  • Active Management of Privacy
  • Standards Based
  • Framework for Multiple, Scaleable Trust and Policy Sets (Federations)
  • Standard Attribute Value Vocabulary
Using Moodle with Shibboleth authentication has the following advantages (depending on the Shibboleth federation you are part of):
  • Access to Moodle can be restricted very accurate (e.g. you allow only students from universities A, B and D to access your Moodle, but not students from universities C and E. Or you allow only medicine students.)
  • User accounts are created automatically as soon as a user logs in the first time.
  • The user profiles are set up automatically (e.g. the users firstname, surname and email address is inserted the first time a user logs in)
  • The user profiles can automatically kept up-to date all the time
  • So you don't have to care anymore for user management issues because this is basically handled by the Identity Provider of the Shibboleth user (e.g. the home university).
  • Once Shibboleth users are authenticated, they can access other Shibboleth-enabled resources without loggin in another time. Due to this single sign-on mechanism, they e.g. can jump from one Moodle installation to another or the can access a Shibboleth-protected library or a web shop, always being authenticated.
Plans for the future concerning Moodle:
  • Automatic course enrollment according to Shibboleth attributes.


Martin Dougiamas

SMTP

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 4:57 PM
 
Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail systems that send mail over the Internet use SMTP to send messages from one server to another. In addition, SMTP is generally used to send messages from a mail client (or a program like Moodle) to a mail server.


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