ARCHIVED: Glossary of Oncourse terms
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Academic Planner | A tool available in portfolio sites that connects to a student's
Academic Planner in the SIS Student Center
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Account | A tool in My Workspace where users can set their authorized email addresses. See ARCHIVED: Changing your authorized email address.
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AI/TA | A role for a teaching assistant or associate instructor who are not
the primary instructor in a course site.
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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.
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Assignments | Formerly known as Assignments 2, 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, now retired.
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Assistant | A participant role in a course, project, or portfolio site. ARCHIVED: More...
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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 ARCHIVED: Changing your authorized email address.
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Blogs | A tool that allows individuals to write entries in online journals
which they can share with others.
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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.
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Campus Course Policies | A tool that links to documentation on course policies for Indiana
University campuses
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Candidate | A participant role in a
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Chat Room | A tool for real-time unstructured online discussion with other site
participants who are also logged into the workspace.
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Coordinator | A role in a portfolio site.
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Courseload Engage/Courseload eTexts
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Courseload Engage is the reading platform for stand-alone digital
texts offered via IU eTexts, available in
Oncourse using the Courseload eTexts tool.
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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.
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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 to create an easy-to-remember alias for the
site's email address.
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Evaluations | A portfolio tool that allows certain users to view and manage
evaluations from students' matrices. ARCHIVED: More...
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Evaluator | A participant role in a portfolio site.
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Feature demonstrations | Short videos that show how to do different tasks. For a
list of feature demonstrations, see ARCHIVED: Oncourse features.
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Form Builder | A tool to create XSD files (i.e., electronic forms) for portfolio
tools. ARCHIVED: More...
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Forms | Some portfolio tools (e.g., Matrices) use
electronic forms to collect data. The Forms tool allows those with
appropriate permissions to add XSD files to a site to serve as these
electronic forms.
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Forums | A tool for creating an unlimited number of discussion forums in
course or project sites. ARCHIVED: 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.
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Glossary | A portfolio tool for creating a glossary of terms referenced in
matrix row and/or column names. ARCHIVED: More...
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Gradebook | A tool allowing instructors to calculate and store grade
information and distribute it to students online. ARCHIVED: More...
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Groups | Study groups, project teams, and other non-official subsets of
site participants. Instructors and site leaders can create groups.
See ARCHIVED: Managing groups.
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Home | The course, project, or portfolio 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 content from another site or
from selected tools, or to combine the content from multiple sites into
one site. See ARCHIVED: Importing material or participants from
another site you own.
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Instructor | A participant role in
a course site. ARCHIVED: More...
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iRubric | A rubric-building and assessment software system available to
certain campuses and departments via Gradebook and Assignments.
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IU eTexts | An online learning and collaboration tool that provides textbooks
and other resources in digital form.
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Librarian | A participant role in a course site.
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Librarian + | A participant role in a course site with more permissions than the
Librarian role.
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Library Resources | Connects students to library resources relevant to course content.
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Loading Dock | Seen when you import scores into the Gradebook. See ARCHIVED: Importing grades from a
spreadsheet.
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Matrices, matrix | A matrix is a framework for guiding students (or another group of users)
through the process of creating a learning or assessment portfolio; the
Matrices tool allows users to create and use matrices. ARCHIVED: More...
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Member | A participant role in a project site. ARCHIVED: More...
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Membership | A tool to add yourself to publicly joinable sites, located in
My Workspace.
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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.
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Messages | A tool that allows participants to communicate using internal
course mail. In addition, it supports messaging between groups. ARCHIVED: More...
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Notifies participants (on the Home page and in
My Workspace) of unread forum postings and
messages
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Modules | A lesson builder tool that allows instructors to publish and organize
material to guide students through the learning process. ARCHIVED: More...
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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.
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News | Site owners can configure this tool to display news from an RSS feed.
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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.
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Official Photo ID | Viewable by instructors from the Roster tool.
See ARCHIVED: Viewing participants in your site.
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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.
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Owner, project owner | A project owner
is a participant role in a project site. However, the term "site
owner" is sometimes used more broadly to indicate a role with full
permissions in any type of site (e.g., a project owner in a project
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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.
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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. ARCHIVED: More...
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Podcasts | Allows site leaders to create, store, and distribute multimedia
content to site participants via an RSS feed. ARCHIVED: More...
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Portfolio environment | A suite of tools that allows faculty and administrators to guide
students through the process of creating learning, assessment, and
presentation portfolios.
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PostEm | Allows site leaders to upload comma-delimited (CSV) spreadsheets to
present feedback to site participants. ARCHIVED: More...
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Practice course site | A site that emulates course site functionality, so instructors
can prepare for future classes they may teach. ARCHIVED: More...
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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.
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Privacy status | Participants can hide their names from other participants, or make
them visible. See ARCHIVED: Changing your privacy status.
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Presentations | A tool for creating personal portfolio presentations using existing
templates. ARCHIVED: More...
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Presentation Templates | A portfolio tool allowing certain users to add XSL design templates
for presentations that incorporate form data.
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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. ARCHIVED: More...
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Project site | A site designed to facilitate collaboration. You can invite anyone
you wish to join your project site.
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Public View | A function that allows an element in a site (such as a syllabus) to be viewable to anyone who has
authorization to access Oncourse. If you make something 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 site. Oncourse also
automatically refreshes your view periodically.
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Reset button | ARCHIVED: The reset button 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.
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Resources | A tool for making materials (e.g., documents, files, or website
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.
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Reviewer | A participant role in a portfolio site.
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rich-text 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). Sometimes called the WYSIWYG editor, which stands
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Roles | Collection of permissions assigned to participants, allowing
specific access within a site. Course, project, and portfolio sites each
have a set of default roles available (e.g., instructor or student).
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Roster | Group- and section-aware tool that allows you to view the names,
photos, and profiles of site participants. ARCHIVED: More...
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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 website. 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. ARCHIVED: More...
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siteID | The siteID for your course, project, or portfolio site is the
string of numbers and letters appearing immediately after
site/ in the site's URL.
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Site owner | A collective term for instructors, project owners, and portfolio
coordinators
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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.
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Site Stats | A tool that allows site owners and assistants to see statistics by
user, event, or resource.
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Student | A participant role for a
course site. ARCHIVED: More...
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Styles | A portfolio tool allowing certain users
to add cascading style sheets (CSS) for controlling the appearance of
matrices and portfolios
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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.
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Tab | A site within Oncourse. Tabs are located horizontally along the top
of the Oncourse window.
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Tests & Surveys | A tool allowing instructors to create online assessments (i.e.,
tests, quizzes, and surveys). ARCHIVED: More...
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URL | Universal Resource Locator. The unique address of a computer, website, or document on the Internet. Some Oncourse tools allow you to
enter a URL.
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Visitor | A participant role for a
course site. ARCHIVED: More...
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Web Content | A tool that allows site owners to choose a website or an HTML file
to display within the Oncourse frame.
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WebDAV | Allows you to more easily transfer files (including files too large
to upload via the standard method) from your local computer to Resources. ARCHIVED: More...
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Wiki | Allows site participants to create and update wiki pages within a
site. ARCHIVED: More...
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Worksite Setup | A tool that provides information about and (for some roles)
management options for the sites to which you currently belong. ARCHIVED: More...
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