Terminology

This has a different meaning within myZou where it represents geographical locations within the same institution. For the University, "campus" will be used to distinguish between on-campus courses and various types of off-campus work.

See academic career.

A grouping of related checklist items. Once all items in a checklist are complete, the checklist itself becomes complete. Checklist codes are owned by administrative functions. These codes are also linked to 3C access groups enabling us to assign data entry or viewing only privileges across functions.

A unit of work that needs to be completed by a person. A unit of work can be an action, a required document, or a phone call. In the admissions process, a checklist item could be supporting documentation for a student's application that needs to be submitted.

A type of checklist. Checklists are used for a variety of processes. For example, we can create requirement lists, communication lists, admission condition lists, and staff assessment lists.

A node or detail on a tree linked to another, higher-level node (referred to as the parent). Child nodes-projects, customers, and so on-can be rolled up into the parent. A node can be a child and a parent at the same time depending on its location within the tree.

Student: A specific offering of a course component within an academic term and session (a class section). Classes (not courses) have dates, times, instructors, and rooms associated with them.

Financial: Class is also a ChartField that will record division and department managerial information for revenue and expenditure. There will be two types of values; those predefined with general descriptions that would be applicable system wide, and those that can be defined by the departments with specific descriptions.

A unique identifier for each class. The class number is a 5-digit system generated number that is resequenced each term. The class number is equivalent to today's UM reference number.

The "client" part of a client/server architecture. It is typically an application that runs on a personal computer or workstation and on a server to perform some operations.

A network architecture in which each computer or process on the network is either a client or a server. Clients are PCs or workstations on which users run applications. Clients rely on servers for resources and even processing power.

Common Business Oriented Language - Developed in the late 1950's and early 1960's, COBOL is the second-oldest high-level programming language. It is particularly popular for business applications that run on large computers.

A broad grouping of communication contexts that generally indicates why a communication was sent or received. Communication categories are owned by administrative functions. These codes are also linked to 3C access groups to enabling us to assign data entry or viewing only privileges across functions.

A broad grouping of communication contexts that generally indicates why a communication was sent or received. Communication categories are owned by administrative functions. These codes are also linked to 3C access groups to enabling us to assign data entry or viewing only privileges across functions.

A specific instance of communication indicating what communication was sent or received. A communication context belongs to a broader communication category.

A single key for entering communication category, communication context, communication method, communication direction, and standard letter code. Communication keys are created for background processes as well as for specific operators.

A method to track whether a specific communication was by E-mail, phone, fax, letter, or in person.

The highest level within Human Resources and is directly associated with the Federal Employer's Identification Number. The main purpose of this field is to capture and report legislative data.

Course components are those different events or teaching methods which together comprise a course. Typical components include lectures, labs, discussion sections, etc.

A course offered by a school, usually described in the course catalog. A course has a standard syllabus and credit level, although these may be modified at the class level. Courses can contain multiple components such as lecture, discussion, and lab. Courses are not term or even academic year specific, but they do have an effective, or starting date. Courses may be entered in pending status.

An employee's chosen benefit plan and coverage level, i.e., what sort of benefit is provided as well as the value.

A client/server report writer that lets you design unlimited types of reports and integrate them into database applications.