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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PEAR | ||
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An acronym for PHP Extension and Application Repository. PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. For more information see http://pear.php.net/. | ||
permission | ||
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A permission is a part of a role which allows or denies a someone to use a feature or function of Moodle. There are over 450 different permissions settings in any Moodle role. Each permission has 1 of 4 states that can be assigned to it: "not set", "allow", "prevent", and "prohibit. Editing or creating new roles on the site level can be complicated. In part because of the hierarchical nature of contexts. In many contexts, roles or permissions can be overridden, and the permitted user will see a shortened list of permissions appropriate to the context. | ||
PHM | ||
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Particularly helpful Moodlers "Particularly helpful Moodlers are people who have written a lot of useful posts in the forums recently, as determined by the Moodle community when they rate posts." | ||
phpMyAdmin | |||
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another PHP Application that can be used to administer your Moodle database. It has an intuitive interface that is actually very basic and it is easy to setup and use. Is a free tool and is downloadable from the phpMyAdmin site. It has also been bundled with the Xampp-lite/Moodle package. | |||
Plesk | |||
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Plesk is a commercial hosting management program that can be used to manage the account management interface. Plesk can be used for multiple distros of Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat, Cloud Linux, Debian) and Windows Server 2008 and 2012 servers. | |||
PMA | |||
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PostgreSQL | |||
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PostgreSQL is a full-featured open-source database with many enterprise features, including:
See http://www.postgresql.org/ for more information. | |||
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. | ||