1EdTech Glossary

Caliper Analytics^® is a standard developed by 1EdTech. Caliper establishes a means for consistently capturing and presenting measures of learning activity; defines a common language for labeling learning data; provides a standard way of measuring learning activities and effectiveness; and leverages data science methods, standards, and technologies. Caliper provides the means to collect click-stream data from all digital resources that can be streamed into an institution's dashboard of choice to view student interaction with digital tools and inform the instructional design to better understand the return on learning for their technology investments. For more information, see 1EdTech's Education and Digital Analytics Initiative and Caliper Analytics Project Group Activity. Higher Education Institutional Members may be interested in the Learning Data & Analytics Innovation Leadership Network; for more information see Higher Ed Innovation Leadership Networks.

Learn more about this work: https://www.imsglobal.org/activity/caliper

This is a new LTI Advantage extension service for LTI-enabled Tools for the configuration of the Caliper Analytics-based reporting capabilities of the Tool. An LTI Platform MUST communicate the availability of the Caliper Connector Service in every LTI message where the service is relevant.

A Caliper event is a data object that describes a learning activity.  It is made up of an actor, an action, and an object.

An individual, or consulting group that builds the CASE frameworks for the Issuer. They translate the issuer’s human-readable standards into the CASE format.

The digital package with a document that includes a list of all the competencies/academic standards (CFitems) for a curricular subject, in sequential order (vertical alignments.) It includes parent-child relationships.

The official entity that owns and generates the source standards. The issuer is the authority who publishes (until now, human-readable) standards. In the case of K12 education, it may be a state’s department of education (DOE/SEA), a Local Education Agency (LEAs), or other organizations that publish K-12 and K-12 PD learning and competency standards. 

The issuer (owner/author) can also be an industry association, other institutions (community colleges, etc.) or a company that offers professional development courses.

The ultimate objective of CASE (1EdTech’s Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® specification) is to make it easier, more accurate, and less expensive for edtech suppliers to align resources and tools with state and district academic standards, therefore allowing educators to find resources that better support their needs. Before CASE, academic standards were usually officially published in PDF format, forcing institutions and edtech suppliers that needed machine-readable standards to perform time-consuming manual work or use proprietary formats. This increased costs and made it difficult to ensure fidelity (especially when standards were updated).

Now, every issuing agency can author machine-readable CASE versions of their standards using their own CASE publishing tool, allowing each agency to retain complete control over the source of truth for their standards and make this source of truth freely and openly available. The CASE Network serves a key function in the CASE ecosystem, providing a single access point for edtech suppliers to pull standards issued by agencies anywhere in the U.S. and access revision histories of those standards.

CASE Network 2 is available for everyone to browse and search without the need to sign in at casenetwork.1edtech.org. Additional functionality, including API and download access to the machine-readable CASE data for all frameworks, is available to edtech suppliers, educational institutions, and non-commercial entities that request Registered Access to CASE Network 2. Edtech suppliers are asked to pay a nominal annual fee to support the network; educational institutions and non-commercial entities can register at no cost. Learn more about CASE Network.  Learn more about the CASE standard. 

An individual from an organization who has registered to use the CASE Network.

A Unique Resource Identifier that leads the user the the API endpoint. This is the call that allows a system to "ingest" or consume an entire CASE Framework.

Is a URL link that directs the user to the original source (the Issuer's publication of the academic standards and competencies.

CAT is the abbreviation for Computer Adaptive Testing, a standard being developed by 1EdTech. See the definition of Computer Adaptive Testing for more information.

A term used in QTI 3 which holds additional resources for QTI content. A catalog holds support-specific dormant content that can be made active (a part of the perceivable content presented to the candidate) based on the candidate's PNP information.

Means that an application or supplier has demonstrated adherence to a 1EdTech standard, has passed the corresponding tests, and has received a certification number from 1EdTech.  This results in the product being listed in the 1EdTech Product Directory

1EdTech offers two types of certification: 

1. Certification for edtech Products against 1EdTech technical standard specifications. 

• Learn how to procure certified products: https://www.1edtech.org/certification/procure-certified
• Suppliers, click here to learn how to get certified: https://www.1edtech.org/certification/get-certified  

2. Professional certification for individuals. (Members only: https://www.1edtech.org/program/tacl) 

Are the suppliers (systems) that ingest CASE API Frameworks. By ingesting CASE frameworks, they can provide CASE-meta tagged resources to districts. CASE consumers can be (1) Education systems, such as an SIS, LMS, assessment platforms, content management systems (CMS) or learning object repositories (LORs), and (2) Curriculum & Assessment Suppliers, digital content providers, learning apps, or learning tools.

The software or system used to publish CASE Frameworks. CASE providers have to have their API’s  certified. 

Examples: FrostAlign, Standards Satchel, AEFIS, EdGate, and PCG’s OpenSalt. CASE providers can author frameworks, but sometimes the CASE Issuer publishes their competencies or academic standards using a Digital Conversion Tool (see definition below)

The abbreviation for Common File Format. This is one of the formats addressed by the 1EdTech Interactive White Board/Common File Format specification.

This is one of the authorization grant mechanisms defined in the OAuth 2.0 standard (IETF RFC 6749).  The client credential grant type is used to obtain both access tokens and refresh tokens and is optimized for confidential clients for which there is exists an established trust relationship. This authorization approach is adopted and adapted in the 1EdTech Security Framework. 

Most commonly used as "Curriculum Management System." Some people also use the acronym for "Content Management System."

Common Cartridge^® is a standard developed by 1EdTech. Common Cartridge provides a way to package and exchange learning content and assessments. Provides a way to package and exchange learning content  (documents, images, videos, audio files, etc.) into a zip file for easy transport. CC can contain the actual content, or links to the content via LTI  links, all with metadata.

Thin Common Cartridge is a subset of the full Common Cartridge that contains only links and metadata about the content. Today’s digital content comes from a variety of resources making it difficult to integrate. Common Cartridge solves this problem by providing a standard way to package learning content so that it can be exported from one system and imported into another, providing educators and students with greater choice and flexibility to share and reuse content to personalize learning. For more information, see 1EdTech's Common Cartridge Project Group Activity.  

Learn more about this work: https://www.imsglobal.org/activity/common-cartridge

CCx is the software developed and used by 1EdTech to enable the Characterization of products that have already achieved 1EdTech Certification. Characterization is the process by which the interoperability capabilities of a deployed product can be determined. The CCx software produces the characterization reports and is used for the comparison of such reports. It is this comparison which is used to identify the actual interoperability between the two characterized systems. This is the software that is used as a part of the 1EdTech Standards First Program.

CASE^® is the abbreviation for the 1EdTech Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange^® standard. CASE is a framework for digitally transmitting learning standards, competencies, rubrics, and the relationships among sets of learning standards.  Learn more about the standard: CASE.  For more information on the CASE Network, visit: https://www.1edtech.org/program/casenetwork2. 

• Label: CASE provides each learning standard its own unique identifier. 
• Package: States (or Learning Standards Issuers) can format and wrap a complete set of standards for a given subject (like a database) so it can be uploaded into a learning platform or digital library. 

1EdTech's Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange^® (CASE^®) standard uses the term competency framework to refer to academic standards documents published by organizations such as a state department of education and individual learning standards. 

Instruments used to identify performance expectations around a task, product or performance. 

For example, using Bloom’s Taxonomy to determine the depth of learning expected at a grade level.

In 1EdTech terms, compliant has no official meaning. You should be wary of the use of this in reference to a supplier’s reported implementation of a standard, specifically when there is no certification. Also a product’s claim of conformance, without certification should be discounted.  Only certified products have demonstrated adherence to the 1EdTech open interoperability standards. 

To learn more and get resources on how to procure certified edtech tools, visit: https://www.1edtech.org/certification/procure-certified

Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) - the specification that defines a comprehensive digital learner record applicable to education and workforce learning in a verifiable, portable, and interoperable format. 

A CLR is an official document that seeks to capture, record, and communicate learning when and where it happens in a student’s educational experience. This includes learning outcomes from courses, programs and degrees, as well as experience they have outside the classroom that help develop their career ready skills and abilities.

Example: Educators designed the CLR to record more context about learning achievements and the learning journey than is possible with a digital badge.  

Learn more about this work: https://www.imsglobal.org/activity/comprehensive-learner-record

Computer Adaptive Testing is a standard for establishing interoperability between adaptive testing engines and assessment delivery platforms to adapt a test to students' understanding of the subject matter. For more information, see 1EdTech's Assessment Project Group Activity and the Computer Adaptive Testing Project Group Activity.

Is simply a claim by a supplier that an application or tool demonstrates that it adheres to an 1EdTech specification e.g. that it has implemented the standard’s requirements. 

Only certified products have demonstrated adherence to the 1EdTech open interoperability standards. 

To learn more and get resources on how to procure certified edtech tools, visit: https://www.1edtech.org/certification/procure-certified

EdTech’s interoperability design relies on two important roles: consumer and provider. Consumers and Providers can be related to tools, content, or services. A Content Consumer ingests content. A Content Consumer would also typically be a learning management system.

The 1EdTech Content Packaging specification describes data structures that can be used to exchange data between systems that wish to import, export, aggregate, and disaggregate digital content and courses. 1EdTech content packages enable exporting content from one learning content management system or digital repository and importing it into another while retaining information describing the media in the content package and how it is structured, such as a table of contents or which web page to show first. This standard is focused on the packaging and transport of resources but doesn’t determine the nature of those resources. This is because the specification allows adopters to gather, structure, and aggregate content in an unlimited variety of formats. The 1EdTech Common Cartridge standard is derived from this standard. This 1EdTech specification is available as an ISO standard [ISO/IEC 12785].

1EdTech’s interoperability design relies on two important roles: consumer and provider. Consumers and Providers can be related to tools, content, or services. A Content Provider hosts the content to be used in the Consumer. Examples of Content Providers include an externally hosted platform or server containing an open educational repository or "for-purchase" digital content.

OIDC Login with LTI Client Side postMessages -- For the LTI launch flow use window postMessages to store and validate state instead of cookies

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule

Communicates to the tool the groups available in the course and their respective enrollment.

The Course Groups Service is a new LTI Advantage extension service for LTI-enabled Tools to receive information about the groups available in the course and their respective enrollment. For example, the tool could use this information to re-use LMS defined groups rather than having to define groups within the tool.

The 1EdTech Course Planning and Scheduling standard is an application profile of the 1EdTech Learning Information Services (LIS) standard. Course Planning and Scheduling defines how systems manage the exchange of information used for the planning and scheduling of courses, the optimal use of facilities within an institution, and the corresponding timetables for people within the institution. Released as a Candidate Final document in December 2013,CPS was never made a Final Release document due to a lack of adoption by 1EdTech Members.

The abbreviation for the 1EdTech Course Planning and Scheduling standard. See Course Planning and Scheduling for more information.

Comma separated values: One of OneRoster’s 2 exchange modes that allows 2 systems to exchange flat files asynchronously.