1EdTech Glossary

Another word for interoperability standards. We use the word "specification" when the text can get confusing between "Academic Standards" and technical standards.

The abbreviation for a student information system. 

A student information system (SIS) is a management information system used by educational institutions to manage student data. Student information systems provide capabilities for registering students in courses, classes, modules and programs (through rostering); documenting grading (through gradebooks), learner records, results of student tests and other assessment scores; building student schedules; tracking student attendance; and managing many different student-related data needs in the institution. In institutions with one or more learning management systems (LMS), there is a significant amount of information exchanged between the SIS and the LMS.

The 1EdTech standards OneRoster and Learning Information Services can be used to support such systems. 

the Student Learning Data Model provides a complete view of a digital ecosystem interconnected with real-time data. 1EdTech ecosystem standards fuel the analytics needed to guide your digital transformation now and into the future.

one of the Metric Profiles defined in the 1EdTech Caliper Standard. The Caliper Survey Profile provides a vocabulary for describing events associated with a respondent's participation in online surveys. A key use case involves instrumenting platforms that offer online surveys that explore the student learning experience, student engagement, learning activities, learning progress, and learning performance. The profile models a person–typically a respondent or a rater—participating in a survey in order to provide feedback on their learning and academic experiences.

Technical Advisory Board (TAB)  - a member-only committee who reviews and approves the activities of its working bodies - Task Forces and Project Groups - which are working for specification chartering and development. 

Example: The TAB will need to review the next candidate final for the CLR Standard before it can be considered a final release. 

The Technical Advisory Board (TAB) operates as a committee of the whole to review and approve the activities of its various Task Forces and Project Groups which are the primary working bodies of the TAB for initial specification chartering and development. The TAB contributes to the technical excellence of 1EdTech solutions for education interoperability by providing advice and consultation on recommended technical directions; suggesting improvements and updates to 1EdTech Working Group practices when appropriate; identifying and actively participating in resolving inter-specification issues or conflicts; identifying areas of overlapping responsibility or conflict between Project Groups; and helping staff technical research projects required to evaluate new technology options, by going beyond the resources on the technical working groups and leveraging their organization or network more broadly.

Thin Common Cartridge® (Thin CC) is a standard developed by 1EdTech. Thin CC is a standardized way to package and exchange Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Links, Web Links and metadata. It is a subset of Common Cartridge. The content within a Thin CC is remotely hosted so that all that is transmitted in the Thin CC is metadata and information about how to access the content that is remotely hosted. See the Common Cartridge/Thin Common Cartridge Project Group Activity for more information.  Learn more about this work: https://www.imsglobal.org/activity/common-cartridge

this is one of the core components in the LTI Advantage specification. In LTI parlance, the tool serves as the service provider as they are the application granting access to the resources or activities. 

Tool is also commonly used as a shorthand when someone means “any learning application”

 In prior versions of LTI this was called the ‘tool provider’ but that verbiage does not align with industry standard terminology and was retired. 

1EdTech interoperability design relies on two important roles, consumer and provider. Consumers and providers can be related to tools, content, or services. In LTI 1.x terminology, a Tool Consumer consumes or ingests the tool. A Tool Consumer typically would be a learning management system, virtual learning environment, or another learning platform. In LTI Advantage a Tool Consumer is now termed the Platform.

To make your ecosystem interoperable, suppliers have to exchange content packages or frameworks. Tool consumers are the suppliers that have the ability to accept (consume) a connection to digital objects from another supplier, or a ingest a package from another supplier. 

For example: CASE "consumers" are platforms that ingest the States' CASE-formatted learning standards (or CASE frameworks). The platform has been built it can "consume" the frameworks and use them to tag lessons, activities, or quizzes.

one of the Metric Profiles defined in the 1EdTech Caliper Standard. The Caliper Tool Launch Profile intends to capture the utilization of learning tools from a centralized location, such as an LTI Platform (often an LMS). As such, it is distinct from the Caliper Tool Use Profile, also defined in this specification, which captures tool usage as reported by the individual tools themselves, i.e., decentralized capture.