Glossary

• common nouns (a.k.a., classes)
  • student
  • course
  • offering (of a course)
  • required textbook
  • recommended textbook
  • proctor: one who proctors
  • problem (a.k.a., item or task) an atom of assigned student activity
  • solution, submitted:
  • solution, key:
  • instrument: list of problems
  • class: an interval of time during which instructional activities occur
  • lecture: a class during which primarily one-way communication from a lecturer (normally the instructor) to students occurs
  • response
  • feedback
  • question: a problem designed primarily for purposes of assessment or feedback.
  • exercise: a problem designed primarily to develop skill rather than to assess or obtain feedback.
  • survey: an unweighted (and presumably unproctored) set of questions
  • quiz: a proctored, weighted list of questions
  • schedule
  • comments (from X to Y)
  • scores (from X to Y): a form of comment that is easy to average.
  • directive
  • instructor: person in charge of an offering of a course
  • lecturer: one who delivers a lecture (also, a UC job title)
  • section, lecture:
  • section, lab:
  • grader (a.k.a., reader): one who grades.
  • course file: the offering-specific portion of the Archive presented in an ABET approved format.

• verbs
  • proctor
  • administer
  • score: the act of assigning a score
  • assign
  • enroll
  • grade: to comment on a solution and/or score it.

• relations
  • attributes, i.e., many-to-one relations
    • proctored
    • score
    • weight
    • scored: having a score attribute whose value may be ``undefined''.
  • general relations
    • prerequisite