Glossary
Academic Advisor — a person who assists learners in reaching their academic goals, guides learners through the learning process, helps to select programms and courses.
Class (or Online Class) — an online practical lesson or lecture.
Course — a set of content components (theoretical topis, exercises, quizzes, labs, and so on) assembled into a whole composition that provides the learning materials for a declared subject.
Course Author — a person who creates content for online courses.
Exam — the evaluation of a learner's knowledge, when they implement tasks to be assessed and get their final grade. Exams can be:
- Proctored Exam — an exam that is timed and monitored (for example, with Constructor Proctor) to ensure the learner's identity and prevent cheating when doing the exam tasks.
- Timed Exam — an exam that a learner needs to complete withing a set time interval.
Instructor — a person who develops teaching content (a course, virtual or coding lab and so on) and teaches learners (students, trainees, and so on).
Learner (deprecated Student) — (IT pro at an MSP) a person who takes a course in Constructor Learn, Constructor Virtual Lab or uses other Constructor products for learning.
Module — a component of a course that delivers a certain concept or a set of tightly bound concepts. A module includes several sections.
Objective — an individual, lowest level learning management component that defines who, when, how and why (with what goal) will get access and view (or complete) a certain activity.
Rich Text Editor — a graphical user interface that allows learners to apply advanced text formatting, enter complex formulas, and so forth.
Section — a part of a course that combines several units. A sections can have subsections.
Supervisor (or also Instructional Designer) — a person responsible for organizing the learning and teaching process, distributing learners among instructors, checking and approving learners’ grades given by TAs, and so on.
Teaching Assistant (TA) — a person who helps a teacher (instructor) and manages a group up to 20 students. TA usually helps students and grades their assignments.
Unit — an elemental part of a course structure like a basic building block, a separate step of a module. It can be a video, multiple choice question, quiz, lab, exercise, problem, assessment, and so on.