Paul Cantrell3d ago

I wrote a static site generator for a course web site (https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/). I like it, and I’m poking at documenting and open-sourcing it so that other instructors can use it for their own courses if they want to.

It needs a cute name. Suggestion box is now open in the replies.

EDIT: I was a fool to mention Moodle in the original version. It’s wrecked the replies: everyone’s talking about LMSes, and all the name suggestions are about Moodle — when the point is that this is not anti-Moodle, but a tool to solve a different set of problems.

COMP 127 – Home

Show threadxcorvis
@inthehands possible nose-thumbing with Muddle, Mogul, or Meddle, (or Moogle for the Final Fantasy fans)
Other low effort suggestions: Classy, Coursica, HomeRoom, SillyBus
Or you could always name it after a cute animal or maybe a flower.
Mar 25 at 2:55amWeb
Show threadKen Butler1d ago
@xcorvis @inthehands or maybe even the *home* of a cute animal, since a website is the course home.
Show threadPaul Cantrell1d ago
@nxskok @xcorvis
Hmm, I like the idea of an animal’s home.
Show threadxcorvis1d ago
@inthehands @nxskok
A neat idea but there's a lot fewer names for animal homes (in English at least) than animals. Rookery, mews, or burrow might work?
Show threadJesse Morris1d ago
@xcorvis @inthehands @nxskok Hmm. They don't all have great connotations. Rabbithole? Rats nest? Sty? OTOH nobody knows the word Ranarium so that one's fine!
Show threadKen Butler1d ago
@aubilenon @xcorvis @inthehands I was thinking of something like "sett" (badger's home?) but that's not very distinctive.
Show threadxcorvis1d ago
@aubilenon @inthehands you have an opportunity to be incredibly confusing and call it "stable"
Show threadPaul Cantrell1d ago
@xcorvis @aubilenon
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