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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 Jon Witts |
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| LDAP | |
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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - is an application protocol for modifying directory services. It is commonly used for user and computer directories for domains. | ||
| WYSIWYG | |
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WYSIWYG is an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get". | ||
 Ken Wilson |
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| Cache | ||
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A small amount of memory between a slow process and a faster process which acts as a way of improving system performance. PHP caches are used to improve PHP performance. | |||
Jenny Watt |
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DHTML | |||
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Dynamic HTML (DHTML) describes using HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create dynamic content on pages. A menu or other objects on a web page that respond to the user without requiring an additional trip to the server or a plug-in application are examples of DHTML in use. | |||
Mira Vogel |
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eWiki | ||
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Abbreviation of EfurtWiki. Moodle's wiki is based on ErfurtWiki, which is an implementation of the WikiWikiWeb hypertext system. It allows simple collaborative editing and creation of web pages. For more about eWiki, see http://erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net/. | ||
 Paul Verrall |
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| IMHO | ||
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In My (Humble|Honest) Opinion | |||
Alan Trick |
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HIG | ||
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Leon Stringer |
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JSON | ||
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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values). JSON is a language-independent data format. It was derived from JavaScript, but many modern programming languages include code to generate and parse JSON-format data. | ||
Mark Stevens |
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DRM | ||
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Digital rights management (DRM) is the umbrella term
referring to any of several technical methods used to handle the
description, layering, analysis, valuation, trading and monitoring of
the rights held over a digital work. In the widest possible sense, the
term refers to any such management. | ||