Glossary of Oncourse terms
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| Account | A tool in My Workspace where users can set their authorized email addresses. See Changing your authorized email address. |
| AI/TA | A role for teaching assistants or associate instructors who are not the primary instructor in a course site. More... |
| Announcements | A tool used to inform site participants of current items of interest, such as a schedule or policy change. Announcements can have attachments, including URLs, and can be automatically emailed to all site participants. More... |
| Assignments | A tool that allowed instructors to create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments for courses. The original Assignments tool is unavailable for new sites; Assignments 2 is the replacement. More... |
| Assignments 2 | Formerly known as Assignments Beta, this tool allows instructors to create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments for courses, and contains additional functionality not available in the original Assignments tool. More... |
| Assignments Beta | This tool has been renamed Assignments 2 to mark the end of the pilot phase; see previous entry. The name Assignments Beta will continue to appear in course sites that were using the tool prior to June 3, 2010. |
| Assistant | A participant role in a course, project, or portfolio site. More... |
| Authorized email address | A participant can send email to the Email Archive only from an authorized email address, and will receive email from other participants there. See Changing your authorized email address. |
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| Blogs Beta | A tool currently in pilot phase that allows individuals to write entries in online journals which they can share with others. More... |
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| Calendar | A tool that displays information such as class session dates, deadlines, web assignment dates, special events, or cancellations in calendar format. More... |
| Candidate | A participant role in a project site. More... |
| Chat Room | A tool for real-time unstructured online discussion with other site participants who are also logged into the workspace. More... |
| Citations Editor Integration | A feature that allows users at IU Bloomington and IUPUI to search for citations from within the WYSIWYG editor. More... |
| Coordinator | A role in a portfolio site. More... |
| Course site | The official site for a particular academic course |
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| Drop Box | A tool that allows instructors and students to share many types of documents within a private folder for each student. More... |
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| Email Archive | A function used to store email sent to all participants via the site email address. Email sent to individual participants will not be stored here. In addition to viewing email messages, you can use this function both to view and create an easy-to-remember alias for the site's email address. More... |
| Evaluator | A participant role in a portfolio site. More... |
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| Feature demonstrations | Short videos that show how to do different tasks. For a list of feature demonstrations, see Oncourse features. |
| Forums | A tool for creating an unlimited number of discussion forums in course or project sites. More... |
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| Global access | A site-wide setting that site owners can choose. It grants access to the site to specific people or to anyone who has the authorization to log into Oncourse. |
| Gradebook | A tool allowing instructors to calculate and store grade information and distribute it to students online. More... |
| Groups | Study groups, project teams, and other non-official subsets of worksite participants. Instructors and site leaders can create groups. See Managing groups. |
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| Home | The course or project site home page, which contains a list of recent site announcements, chat messages, and Messages and Forums notifications. |
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| Import | A function that allows you to import another site's content, content from selected tools, or combine the content from multiple sites into one site. See Importing material or participants from another site you own. |
| Instructor | A participant role in a course site. More... |
| iTunes U | A proprietary service set up by way of an agreement between Apple and IU that makes podcasts more readily available to IU students, faculty, and staff. More... |
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| Librarian | A participant role in a course site. More... |
| Librarian + | A participant role in a course site with more permissions than the Librarian role. More... |
| Library Resources | Connects students to library resources relevant to course content |
| Loading Dock | Seen when you import scores into the Gradebook. See Importing grades from a spreadsheet. |
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| Member | A participant role in a project site. More... |
| Membership | A tool to add yourself to publicly joinable sites, located in My Workspace. |
| Menubar | The vertical bar on the left side of the screen that lists the tools available in a site. Site owners can designate which tools to activate in the Site Setup tool. More... |
| Messages | A tool that allows participants to communicate using internal course mail. In addition, it supports messaging between groups. More... |
| Messages and Forums notifications | Notifies participants (on the Home page and in My Workspace) of unread forum postings and messages |
| Modules | A lesson builder tool that allows instructors to publish and organize material to guide students through the learning process. More... |
| My Workspace | An individual worksite for each Oncourse user that, among other things, consolidates calendar and announcement information for all your sites. When you log directly into Oncourse, My Workspace is the default site that opens. My Workspace also allows you to create and post private items, join public sites, and perform other tasks. More... |
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| News | Site owners can configure this tool to display news from an RSS feed. More... |
| Non-calculating grades | Grades entered as a string of text (up to eight characters) rather than a numerical value; these can be traditional letter grades or designations such as "absent". Non-calculating grades cannot be used for automatic course grade calculations. |
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| Observer | A participant role in a course, project, or portfolio site. More... |
| Official Photo ID | Viewable by instructors from the Roster tool. See Viewing participants in your site. |
| Oncourse | Oncourse Collaboration and Learning (Oncourse) is developed in partnership with other academic institutions, and provides all faculty and students at IU with a powerful environment in which to collaborate and learn. |
| Original Oncourse | A course management system built in-house at Indiana University; it was retired at the end of summer 2007 and replaced with Oncourse. |
| Original Test and Survey tool | Lets instructors collect answers to questions online, either to administer tests or to gather survey information (e.g., for informal course feedback). Slated for retirement in 2012. More... |
| Owner | A participant role in a project site. More... |
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| Participants | The users of a particular site, who are granted different privileges based on their roles. Also the name for a specific role in a portfolio site. More... |
| Permissions | A function that determines what participants in a given role can see or do in the site. Site owners can set different permissions for different tools. More... |
| Podcasts | Allows site leaders to create, store, and distribute multimedia content to site participants via an RSS feed. More... |
| Portfolio environment | A suite of tools that allows faculty and administrators to guide students through the process of creating learning, assessment, and presentation portfolios. More... |
| Post'Em | Allows site leaders to upload comma-delimited (CSV) spreadsheets to present feedback to site participants. More... |
| Practice course site | A worksite that emulates course site functionality, so instructors can prepare for future classes they may teach. More... |
| Preferences | A tool in My Workspace that allows users to set their own preferences for being notified about new announcements, resources, and site email messages. |
| Privacy status | Participants can hide their names from other participants, or make them visible. See Changing your privacy status. |
| Profile | A tool in My Workspace that allows participants to enter, or choose to display, public and personal information, including an institutional ID picture if available. More... |
| Project site | A worksite designed to facilitate collaboration. You can invite anyone you wish to join your project site. |
| Public View | A function that allows elements in a site (such as a syllabus) to be viewable to anyone who has authorization to access Oncourse. If you make your site element publicly viewable, any user of Oncourse can see it and will have access-level rights. |
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| Refresh | A function of a web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Firefox) that contacts the server for updated information. When using Oncourse, you may want to refresh your browser periodically to make sure you have the most up-to-date information in a worksite. Oncourse also automatically refreshes your view periodically. |
| Resources | A tool for making materials (e.g., documents, files, or web site addresses) available for users of a site. Using the Permissions feature of this tool, site owners can control which types of users can post or read documents in specific folders within Resources. More... |
| Reviewer | A participant role in a portfolio site. More... |
| Roles | Collection of permissions assigned to participants, allowing specific access within a worksite. Course sites and project sites each have a set of default roles available (e.g., instructor or student). More... |
| Roster | Group- and section-aware tool that allows you to view the names, photos, and profiles of site participants. More... |
| RSS | A format for syndicating news, which in this context can encompass not only current events but also changes to various types of documents. An RSS feed will update automatically from an external web site. Site owners can add RSS via the News tool. |
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| SIS Grade Roster | A tool allowing instructors to use a course site's gradebook to submit final course grades. More... |
| siteID | The siteID for your course or project site is the string of numbers
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| Site owner | A collective term for both instructors and owners |
| Site Setup | A tool that allows site owners to make changes to tools, participants, access, etc. for the site; for site participants, Site Setup displays site information. More... |
| Site Stats | A tool that allows site owners and assistants to see statistics by user, event, or resource. More... |
| Student | A participant role for a course site. More... |
| Syllabus | The official outline for a course. Instructors can upload a copy of it or provide a link to it if it already exists elsewhere online. More... |
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| Tab | A worksite within Oncourse. Tabs are located horizontally along the top of the Oncourse window. |
| Tests & Surveys | A tool allowing instructors to create online assessments (i.e., tests, quizzes, and surveys). More... |
| Turning Technologies | A tool enabling integration of Oncourse with student response devices from Turning Technologies. More... |
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| Up arrow icon | The up arrow icon appears to the left of the tool name and looks like a green arrow pointing up. It returns you to the top page of the tool you are using. Clicking the tool name itself has the same result. |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator. The unique address of a computer, web site, or document on the Internet. Some Oncourse tools (e.g., Web Content and Syllabus allow you to enter a URL. |
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| Visitor | A participant role for a course site. More... |
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| Web Content | A tool that allows site owners to choose a web site or an HTML file to display within the Oncourse frame. More... |
| WebDAV | Allows you to more easily transfer files (including files too large to upload via the standard method) from your local computer to Resources. More... |
| Wiki | Allows site participants to create and update wiki pages within a course or project site. More... |
| Worksite | Any course or project space within Oncourse |
| Worksite Setup | Provides information about the worksites to which you currently belong or may join. More... |
| WYSIWYG editor | A text box with buttons that allow you to change the formatting of your text as you type, used within a number of tools in Oncourse (e.g., Messages). WYSIWYG stands for "What You See Is What You Get". More... |
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Last modified on January 31, 2012.
Last modified on January 31, 2012.
