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.
CMS	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.
Module	Each part of Studo Flow that fulfills a use case (e.g. DAL, Group Registration, MS Teams Synchronization, Evaluation) is called a Module.
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	OpenID Connect. An authentication layer built on top of OAuth 2.0 that verifies a user's identity and is commonly used for modern web/mobile SSO.
OAuth	Open Authorization. An open standard authorization framework that grants applications (like Studo Flow) delegated access to specific user data without exposing the user's password.
SAML	Security Assertion Markup Language. An XML-based protocol for exchanging authentication and authorization data (assertions) between an Identity Provider (IdP) and a Service Provider (Studo Flow) for SSO.
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An open standard application protocol used to access and maintain distributed directory information services (like Active Directory) for user authentication and information lookups.
User	One individual person is represented in Studo Flow with exactly one user. A user can have multiple roles.
Role	A label assigned to a User that determines their permissions and access rights within Studo Flow.
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	An administrative role with full management access to configure and manage the Studo Flow instance, including system settings, integrations, and user roles.
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	A user whose primary role is participating in courses and lectures.
Organization	A high-level entity representing a specific department, faculty, or other administrative unit within the university that can be used to scope access rights and data views. Each course belongs to exactly one Organization.