Words you'll come across.
36 terms you may hear when a course moves online, defined plainly.
- Assessment
- The test at the end of a course. Questions are drawn from a bank, so learners receive different sets.
- Assessment design
- The document that sets out how a course is assessed: question types, how they are drawn and the pass mark.
- Branching scenario
- An activity where each choice leads to a different next step, so the learner sees the result of a decision.
- Card checkout
- Paying for a course seat by card on the course's own website.
- Care
- Care is the monthly plan for organisations with up to 2 courses.
- Certificate code
- The code printed on a certificate. It links to the public page where the certificate can be checked.
- Check page
- The public web page that confirms a certificate is real and shows what it records.
- Completion report
- A report of who has started, finished and passed a course, by team or organisation.
- Content change
- An edit to a course after launch, such as new wording, a new example or a corrected detail.
- Course Blueprint
- A half-day with you and your trainer that maps the in-person course to an online course and fixes the price of the build.
- CPD
- Continuing professional development: the learning a profession expects of its members each year or cycle.
- Demo course
- Listing to settlement, by the book, is the example course we built to demonstrate the format. Fernhollow Realty is fictional and is not a client.
- Feedback
- The explanation a learner sees after an answer, right or wrong.
- Grow
- Grow covers up to 6 courses and includes a yearly refresh and a manager view.
- Invoice path
- Buying seats on an invoice instead of by card, usually with a purchase order number.
- Learner
- The person taking the course.
- Learner hour
- 1 hour of the online course for a typical learner, including reading, activities and checks. The unit a course is measured and priced in.
- Lesson
- The smallest part of a course, built around 1 decision.
- Manager view
- A view on Grow that lets a manager see their team's progress.
- Module
- A group of lessons on 1 topic.
- Module map
- A document listing each module, its main activity and the time allocated to it.
- Ordering activity
- An activity where the learner puts steps in the right order.
- Pass mark
- The score needed to pass. Ours is 80 percent.
- Pilot
- A trial run of a course with learners you choose, before launch.
- Purchase order number
- The reference an organisation uses to approve a purchase. We include it on invoices.
- Question bank
- All the questions written for an assessment, from which each learner's set is drawn.
- Refresh
- A revision of a course when the rules, the law or practice change.
- Review round
- A pass in which you read a module and send your changes.
- SCORM
- A file format for moving courses between learning systems. We do not build SCORM files.
- Seat
- 1 learner's enrolment in a course.
- Seat pack
- A number of seats bought together by an organisation.
- Sorting activity
- An activity where the learner places items in the right group.
- Verifiable CPD
- CPD that can be proved, usually with a record of completion and an assessment.
- Version
- The numbered edition of a course. Each certificate records the version the learner completed.
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- The accessibility standard we build courses to.
Tell us about your course.
Tell us what you teach and who takes it. We'll give you a straight answer on whether an online version is worth building.