Acrónimos habituales
De MoodleDocs
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Es una lista alfabética de los Acrónimos habituales que podemos encontrar sobre Moodle, con enlaces donde ampliar información. Algunos de éstos son puramente técnicos, para el desarrollo del software, los orígenes de código fuente abiert; algunas son creaciones de la comunidad e-learning, y otros son parte de cultura en línea.
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A - E
- CMS - Del inglés Course Management System, es decir, Sistema de Gestión de Cursos. También se interpreta, en un sentido más general, como Content Management System, es decir, Sistema de Gestión de Contenidos. Es la categoría de programas a la que pertenece Moodle. Algunos prefieren los términos Learning Management System (Sistema de Gestión de Aprendizaje) o Community Management Systems (Sistema de Gestión de Comunidades) para cambiar el énfasis de las cosas a las personas, sus interacciones y sus metas.
- CSS - Del inglés Cascading Style Sheets, Hojas de Estilo en Cascada, empleadas para controlar el aspecto de las páginas web.
- CSV - Del inglés Comma Separated Values, Valores Separados por Coma. Es un formato de texto simple para introducir datos. Puede ser creado y editado con Microsoft Excel o, si se hace con cuidado, con cualquier editor de texto.
- CVS - Del inglés Concurrent Versioning System, Sistema de Versiones Concurrentes. Es una herramienta que permite a mucha gente colaborar en un código de programación y acceder a él desde internet.
F - H
- FAQ - Del inglés Frequently Asked Questions, es decir, preguntas frecuentes, documento que incluye las respuestas a las preguntas más frecuentes de los usuarios. Es un buen sitio para empezar cuando se esta buscando información, y una buena forma de evitar tener que contestar continuamente las mismas preguntas.
- FE - Further Education in the UK is post-16 non-compulsory education where institutions offer anything from low level basic training through to foundation degrees
- FLOSS - Free, Libre and Open Source Software, an inclusive term that encompasses both Free Software and Open Source Software while emphasising that Free is intended to represent Freedom (Libre in Spanish) and not without cost (Gratis in Spanish).
- GNU - Gnu's Not Unix - a unix-like operating system. Most "Linux" distributions are actually GNU/Linux. Moodle's "GPL" licence (see below) is based on the GNU GPL licence.
- GPL - General Public Licence, the software licence under which Moodle is made available. Its intention is to ensure that people who sell or distribute Moodle (or other GPL software) share any modifications.
- HE - Higher Education in the UK is post 18 non-compulsory education where students tend to study academic degrees at universities although other options are available
- HTH - Hope that helps. Usually appears at the end of a post offering advice
- HTML - HyperText Markup Language, which is used to write web pages.
I - M
- IE - Navegador de Internet Explorer de Microsoft
- IMHO - In My Humble Opinion, a polite yet brief way to indicate in text communication that the preceding or following statement is not a statement of fact but merely expressing an opinion.
- K-12 - Kindergarten through 12th grade, a North American term inclusive of both primary and secondary education, roughly encompassing students from age 4 to 18.
- LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. This is a very common set up for Moodle and indeed most webservers
- MOODLE - Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, though over time it has become common to treat Moodle as a simple name and verb e.g. "let's Moodle" or "I've been Moodling" or "He's a Moodler". In fact in big dictionaries you can find it as a word meaning roughly a cross between musing and doodling.
N - Z
- RSS - Really Simple Syndication is a family of XML web feeds and can be used to receive forum posts and podcasts
- SQL - Structured Query Language, used to describe the information you wish to retrieve from a database.
- TCO - Total Cost of Ownership, a measure of cost that aims to be more comprehensive and useful than purchase price by including many other costs over time. Unfortunately while purchase price is usually factual and objective, a TCO necessarily relies on assumption, projections and estimates. This leads to them being highly subjective and you should evaluate the methodology applied in any such calculation before concluding if it applies to your own situation.
- PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a programming language used extensively in the creation of Moodle. That the P in PHP also stands for PHP is an obscure programmer in-joke.
- VLE - Virtual Learning Environment, a term popular in the UK which is roughly interchangeable with Course Management System, Learning Management System, Learning Platform or Online Learning Environment.
- XML - Extensible Markup Language
- XAMP o XAMPP o XAMPPlite - Apache, MySQL and PHP automatic installer, part of the Moodle complete package download.
