Glossary

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Term	Description
Course	A teaching unit that belongs to a semester and has one or more groups and lecturers.
Group	A subdivision of a course. A student can be registered in one group within a course.
Event	A scheduled teaching event associated with a course group.
CMS	A campus management system. This may consist of one or more systems for managing university processes, student information, learning, or timetables.
GDPR	The General Data Protection Regulation, an EU regulation governing data protection and privacy.
Studo	The company that provides Flow and the Campus App.
Flow	An application for digitising administrative processes at universities.
Module	Functionality in Flow that supports a specific workflow, such as the Digital Attendance List, Registrations, or Microsoft Teams synchronisation.
Campus App	The mobile application for students and lecturers. It can be used at a university independently of Flow.
SSO	Single sign-on: an authentication scheme that allows users to access Flow through an existing university account and login page.
OIDC	OpenID Connect, an authentication layer built on OAuth 2.0 that verifies a user's identity and is commonly used for modern web and mobile SSO.
OAuth	Open Authorization, a standard authorisation framework that grants applications 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 authorisation data between an identity provider and Flow.
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a standard protocol used to access and maintain directory information services such as Active Directory.
User	An individual person represented in Flow. A user can have multiple roles.
Role	A label assigned to a user that determines permissions and access rights within Flow.
Root user	The account used to access a Flow instance before a login provider is configured or when it is unavailable. It can also be used for API integrations that require full read and write access.
Admin	An administrative role with full access to configure and manage a Flow instance, including system settings, integrations, and user roles.
Moderator	An administrative role applied to one or more organisations.
Lecturer	A professor, tutor, or other member of teaching staff assigned to one or more courses.
Student	A user whose primary role is participating in courses and teaching events.
Organization	A Flow entity representing a department, faculty, or other administrative unit used to scope access rights and data. Each course belongs to one organisation.