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Glossary of terms

The following glossary defines the terms used by Vocareum and within the platform.

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Written by David
Updated over a year ago

The glossary is in a logically grouped order designed to ensure the definitions of terms appearing in the list do not depend on terms appearing later in the list:

  • Vocareum Application: A SAAS web aplication that comprises the Vocareum product.

  • Customer: An institution that has a direct business relationship with Vocareum.

  • User: A person who has an account in the Vocareum application.

  • Organization: An entity to consolidate and manage a set of users, courses and resources. A Customer may have one or more organizations.

  • Administrator: A user who has been designated to manage an organization.

  • Student or Learner: A user that has been enrolled into the Vocareum platform and tasked to complete assignments and labs.

  • Teacher or Instructor: A user that has privileges to create assignments and manage course operations.

  • Teaching Assistant (TA): A user that has privileges to review and assess student work.

  • Peer: A student that is enrolled in the same course as another student.

  • Team: A group of one or more students who complete an assignment together.

  • Custom Role: A set of permissions defined at the organization level that may be assigned to a user.

  • Learning Management System (LMS): A software application used to manage certain learning processes. The Vocareum Application is typically integrated into 3rd party LMS, like Canvas, Docebo, edX, Moodle, etc.

  • Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI): A specification that defines how the Vocareum Application may be integrated with 3rd party LMS's.

  • Course: A collection of assignments, users, resources and grades.

  • Assignment or Lab: A collection of one or more parts that define a set of activities for students.

  • Part: An activity for students that may include the Student IDE, resources and assessments.

  • Resources: A set of compute or data resources that are defined at the part- or organization-level. Part-level resources are assigned to a single student. Organization-level resources are shared among students in the organization's courses.

  • Student IDE: The user interface that is presented by the Vocareum application to the student. This is the development environment that the learner interacts with to complete an assigned activity.

  • Teacher IDE: The user interface that is presented by the Vocareum application to the teacher for configuring an assignment (or lab).

  • Student View: The user interface that presents the teacher with a Student IDE and student experience.

  • Student Workarea: The persistent storage environment for a student in an assignment.

  • Submission: A copy of the student work that is saved in the Vocareum application when the student clicks the "Submit" button in the Student IDE.

  • Startercode: A set of files that is delivered to the student workarea when an assignment is first started.

  • Grading Script: A shell script that is executed against a student submission and provides a grade which may be passsed back to an LMS via LTI.

  • Lab Scripts: A set of scripts that may be used to setup or teardown lab environments.

  • Fleets: A set of resources that may be launched ahead of learner arrival (a.k.a. warm or hot pools)

  • Session: A period of time when a learner enters a lab to when they exit the lab.

  • Session Time: The amount of time a learner is granted to complete a lab in a single session.

  • Clone by Reference: When a course or assignment is cloned by reference, changes to the originating object will be reflected to the clone.

  • Clone by Copy. When a course or assignment is cloned by copy, changes to the originating object will not be reflected to the clone.

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