Glossary of common terms

PHM

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 07:29:30 GMT

by Visvanath Ratnaweera.

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."

CLAS

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 07:07:29 GMT

by Visvanath Ratnaweera.

Command Line Avoidance Syndrome. Ref. CLAS (Command Line Avoidance Syndrome)?

SCNR

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:08:40 GMT

by Visvanath Ratnaweera.

Sorry, Could Not Resist

STACK

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:36:03 GMT

by Visvanath Ratnaweera.

STACK (System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer algebra Kernel) is the world-leading open-source online assessment system for mathematics and STEM. It is available for Moodle, ILIAS and as an integration through LTI. In Moodle it appears as the additional question type STACK which runs on the open source computer algebra system (CAS) Maxima as its back-end.

BMA

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:25:38 GMT

by Juan Leyva.

The Branded Moodle App (BMA) is a mobile app customisation service offered by Moodle HQ.

For more information visit https://moodle.com/branded-app/

WAF

Mon, 02 May 2022 08:28:35 GMT

by Leon Stringer.

A web application firewall (WAF) is a specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service. By inspecting HTTP traffic, it can prevent attacks exploiting a web application's known vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and improper system configuration.

MoodleBox

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 05:12:10 GMT

by Visvanath Ratnaweera.

MoodleBox is a standalone small and cheap mobile Moodle server that functions without the Internet. It combines the latest stable Moodle with its own wireless LAN. MoodleBox is built around the mini-computer Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi OS.

For more visit their website moodlebox.net.

JSON

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:19:06 GMT

by Leon Stringer.

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.

Moodle App Plans

Tue, 12 May 2020 07:17:04 GMT

by Noel De Martin.

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.

Multiple Choice Question

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:45:16 GMT

by Jon Bolton.

A multiple-choice question (MCQ) is composed of two parts: a stem that identifies the question or problem, and a set of alternatives or possible answers that contain a key that is the best answer to the question, and a number of distractors that are plausible but incorrect answers to the question.

It is one of the core question types in Moodle.

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