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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Postnuke | ||
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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. A great website for educators to start at is the postnuke education forum. | ||
Production Site | ||
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A production site is site that is publicly operating, it has courses and is being used by anyone enrolled. | ||
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Q'n'D | |||
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Quick and Dirty. Usually a reference to a specific kludge or a specific, rapid response to an immediate problem. | |||
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RELOAD | ||
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Reusable eLearning Object Authoring & Delivery | ||
RSS | |||
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RSS is a Web content syndication format. (extracted from http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) | |||
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SCORM | |||
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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. | |||
sections | ||
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The areas within a course that hold activities are known as sections. This is a generic term that covers weeks and topics. | ||
server | ||
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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. | ||
Shibboleth | ||
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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:
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SMTP | ||
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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. | ||