Glossary of Studo Flow terms
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| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Course | Each student can take one or multiple courses per semester. A course might be named e.g. Mathematics 1. Each course has one or multiple lecturers. |
| Group | Each course has one or multiple groups. Each student can be registered to exactly one group to participate in the course. A group might be named Default group, Group 1 or Group Lecturer Cooper. |
| Event | Each group has 0 to multiple events. Multiple events can have the same start and end date if they are in different groups. |
| Campus management system | A campus management system can be one or multiple tools that offer digital management of administrative processes on a university. This can also be learning management systems, student information systems or schedule systems. |
| GDPR | The General Data Protection Regulation is a Regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy. |
| Studo | The company providing Studo Flow and the Studo App. |
| Studo Flow | A service to manage/host administrative processes on a university. |
| Studo App | Mobile native app for students and lecturers. Can be used on a university independently of Studo Flow. |
| SSO | Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in on Studo Flow with an already existing university account through an already existing university login screen. |
| OIDC | |
| OAuth | |
| SAML | |
| LDAP | |
| User | One individual person is represented in Studo Flow with exactly one user. A user can have multiple roles. |
| Role | |
| Root user | Each Studo Flow instance has exactly one root user, to access Studo Flow also when your login provider is not yet configured or not working. This root user can also be used for API integrations to systems, that should have full access (read & write) to all data on Studo Flow. |
| Admin | |
| Moderator | A moderator or manager is an administrative role that is applied to one or multiple organizations. |
| Lecturer | A lecturer is a professor or tutor on one or multiple courses. |
| Student | |
| Organization |