Course Registration System
Glossary
Version 2.0
Revision History
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26/Dec/1998 |
1.0 |
Draft version |
Bill Collings |
19/Feb/1999 |
2.0 |
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Bill Collings |
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Glossary
- Introduction
The glossary contains the working definitions for terms and classes in the
Course Registration System. This glossary will be expanded throughout the life
of the project. Any definitions not included in this document may be included in
the Rose Model.
Definitions
- Course
- A class offered by the university.
- Course Catalog
- The unabridged catalog of all courses offered by the
university.
- Faculty
- All the professors teaching at the university.
- Finance System
- The system used for processing billing information.
- Grade
- The grade for the student in a course.
- Professor
- A person teaching classes at the university.
- Registrar
- University administrator responsible for enrollment &
offered courses.
- Remote Access
- Any system access achieved by dialing-in remotely or
connecting via the internet.
- Report
- All the grades for all courses taken by a student in a
given semester.
- Roster
- All the students enrolled in a particular course
offering.
- Section
- A specific offering for a course, including days of the
week and times.
- Semester
- Each school year is split into 3 semesters; Fall, Spring,
and Summer.
- Schedule
- The courses a student has enrolled in for the current
semester.
- Student
- A person enrolled in classes at the university.
- Student Body
- The list of all students.
- Transcript
- The history of the grades for all courses for a
particular student
- University Artifacts
- General term used to collect business entities associated
with the University.
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