📘Terminology

Base Course

A term used interchangeably with the program that describes the awards, non-awards, programs or courses offered by a provider.

Further Reading: Manage Base Courses

Base Assessment

Describes the specific assessment tasks associated with a unit. Assessments include items such as essays, quizzes, exams etc.

Further Reading: Manage Base Assessments

Base Unit

Describes the learning outcomes and accreditation information for units, subjects and modules that form one or more programs.

Further Reading: Manage Base Units

Code Item

One of four potential ways that Paradigm builds drop-down menus for display on the user interface. Code items are grouped by type.

Further Reading: Edit Code Items

Contact

A contact is a non-student user who may or may not have an account to directly access Paradigm. Examples of contacts include administration staff, lecturers, teachers, etc.

Further Reading: Contacts

Course Enrolment

Describes the academic progression of a specific student in a specific course or program

Further Reading: Manage Course Enrolments

Course Outline

The visual representation of a student course enrolment consists of rules to govern course progression.

Further Reading: Manage Course Outlines

Fee Rule

A rule-based approach that uses matching criteria to dynamically calculate unit tuition fees.

Further Reading: Manage Fee Rules

Grade Schema

This record reflects the grade schema used by Paradigm to calculate academic outcomes at an assessment and a unit level. The grade table may also be used to calculate GPA or to associate specific academic outcomes with enrolment status codes.

Further Reading: Grade Schema

Provider

Describes the organisations that have relationships with people reflecting some form of service they provide in an education context.

Examples of services include a campus, a higher education provider, work experience business etc.

Further Reading: Provider

Scheduled Assessment

The record of how assessments are delivered for a specific scheduled unit.

Further Reading: Manage Scheduled Assessments

Scheduled Program

A Course being offered by the institution with Offer Start and Expected End Date, and the Course Study Start Date. Inherits the details of the Base Course record.

Further Reading: Manage Scheduled Programs

Scheduled Session

The individual classes for a particular scheduled unit.

Further Reading: Manage Sessions

Scheduled Unit

The record of what units are offered and how they are offered for a specific time. Key fields include start date, end date, delivery mode, and delivery location.

Further Reading: Manage Scheduled Units

Status Item

Status items represent one type of drop-down menu within Paradigm and are used to reflect the last and best-known state of a record. Most records in Paradigm may be assigned a status.

Further Reading: Edit Status Items

Student

Students are the learners who study at an institution

Further Reading: Manage Student Records

Student Result

Student Academic outcomes record, the final grade for each unit enrolment and grades to assessments per unit enrolment.

Further Reading: Entering Results

Time Period

Time periods are records that capture meaning against specific dates or date ranges. Time periods are used to control specific system functionality such as the course outline, or to capture the academic calendar in the form of terms, census periods and academic years.

Further Reading: Time Periods

Unit Enrolment

Describes the academic progress in a unit of study for a specific student in a specific course

Further Reading: Manage Unit Enrolments