Glossary of UniversitySite Terms

• Active - status indicating the item is not restricted from visibility to learners and is the default status for UniversitySite elements currently being considered "in use"
• Retired - status indicating the item should no longer be used and will no longer appear in LearningSite To Do lists or other LearningSite locations, but data associated with this item is retained
• Expired - status indicating the date set by an instructor to encourage review of this item to ensure it is still relevant has been reached or exceeded. These items do NOT automatically become retired at this point.  This is a decision that must be made by an instructor to review and retire if they deem it appropriate. This can be done in bulk.
• LearningSite - portion of UniversitySite designed for learners to interact with courses, resources, events, and plans created by InstructorSite users
• InstructorSite - portion of UniversitySite designed for instructors to create courses, resources, events, and plans for use with LearningSite and ManagerSite as well as to report on all user activities
• ManagerSite - portion of UniversitySite designed for managers who may need to report on training taken by their "employees" and/or assign training to them in the form of learning plans either taken directly from InstructorSite,  or created anew by the manager
• Enroll/Enrollment - to accept or assign responsibility to complete a set of learning requirements via a plan
• Register - to indicate ones intent to come to a classroom event scheduled on the calendar; this action adds a person to the event roster
• Registrant - person who has registered for a training event
• Roster - the list of registrants/learners who have indicated they are coming to a training event and also the place where you record attendance
• Audience - a security group for restricting visibility of and access to courses, events, or learning plans in LearningSite
• Course - a  potential classroom event that may be scheduled or requested for future scheduling as an event
• Live Event - a course that has been scheduled for a particular date/time on the calendar
• Department - a security group applied within InstructorSite to ensure other instructors cannot edit or delete or use courses, events, or learning plans assigned to a particular group.  This designation also has a side benefit that impacts LearningSite in that it allows learners to view courses or content created by specific departments/groups within the firm and these departments appear as flags within the Explorer page in LearningSite
• Tag - an instructor created label that is applied via InstructorSite to courses that have something in common, typically as an aid to finding a group of like content via LearningSite in the Explorer,  global search, and also of particular benefit for use with SharePoint web parts included with the SharePoint Learning Kit.
• Elearning - video content published for SCORM or AICC LMS standard formats; these formats usually support bookmarking and automatic completion tracking and are of particular value when compliance tracking is  essential e.g. security,  sexual harassment etc
• On-Demand - content that can be consumed immediately by learners without the need for an instructor
• Video - generic description of video content that may or may not be in SCORM or AICC format e.g. mp4, wmv
• Resource - learning aid often associated with a course, but not necessarily, for either instructor or learners benefit, can be of any file type
• Scheduler - InStructorSite tool to help identify training needs based on direct course requests as well as incomplete courses in learning plans assigned to learners
• Regulatory Agency - governing authority responsible for establishing credit goals, typically a bar association or legal body overseeing a region e.g. New York State Bar, England and Wales CPD
• Credit - a unit of learning quantity (usually hours)  established by a regulatory agency to be tracked on a periodic/annual basis and used in conjunction with learning plans to assign these requirements to learners
• Plan  - a set of course or credit or both, requirements which may be assigned to one or more learners for some business purpose