Glossary

component

Moodle is composed of a number of plugins and subsystems. Collectively these are known as components.

Components all have a frankenstyle namespace which is used across Moodle to reference files, classes, templates, modules, and other features.

subsystem

Moodle subsystems are the core structures which make up the platform. They provide a variety of APIs to support common actions ranging from output handling, to the use of javascript, to database interactions, logging, and more.

Moodle’s subsystems are all in the frankenstyle namespace under core.

plugin

Plugins are the easiest and most common way to add functionality to the core product.

Plugins have a frankenstyle namespace of [plugintype]_[pluginname].

frankenstyle namespace

All code in Moodle belongs to a component. Components are uniquely identified by a frankenstyle namespace.

Frankenstyle namespaces are all in the format [core|plugintype]_[subsystem|pluginname].

Web Services

Moodle offers a number of Web Services.

These allow for integration with the Moodle frontend Javascript, the Moodle Mobile App, and can also be used for other third-party integrations.