Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment or also known as MOODLE is a Course Management System/
Learning Management System. It is an open source E-learning Software. It is used by many
schools, universities and colleges to help them manage exams, grading, and many
more utilities, which can be helpful to the said establishments.
MOODLE has features that allow it to scale very large
deployments and hundreds and thousands of students, yet it can also be used for
primary schools or to an education hobbyist. The
users can use the activity modules (such as forums, databases and wikis)
to build richly collaborative communities of learning around their subject
matter.
To get MOODLE it comes in variety of packages that can be
installed .Some webhosts offer MOODLE as part of their hosting packages,
although it varies in reliability. Other webhosts offer MOODLE for free, but
this usually comes with conditions attached, like having advertisements on
user’s site.
Oauth is a security protocol that enables the users to grant
third-party access without revealing the true identity of the user. Oauth started last November 2006. After a
long month of discussion, the final draft of Oauth Core 1.0 was released on
October 3, 2007.
What is Oauth
for? As what Mr. Hammer-Lahav cite in his example, Oauth provides a special key
that allows a third-party user access personal data without revealing the
identity of the user. The user will just have to authenticate the application
so user can grant limited access to its personal and secret data but the
regular key which is only the user knows will be used to unlock everything.
Most of the
websites today are upgrading. They offer different services that ties together
functionality from other sites. This is a very good service but what is not
good is that these third-party websites requires the username and password of
the user. By this, the secret credentials of the user will be revealed and they
will be given a full access on manipulating the personal account.
In using Oauth,
the user will no longer have to provide passwords to grant access on users
private resources when using a third-party application. “While OpenID is all
about using a single identity to sign into many sites, Oauth is about giving
access to your stuff without sharing your identity at all.” (Hammar-Lahav,
2012)
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