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Description |
| 101 Network is Unreachable |
Indicates that a particular webpage requires authentication for users to access it. |
| 403 Forbidden |
Indicates that a server will not respond to a page request. |
| 404 Not Found |
Indicates that a webpage has been moved or deleted and is no longer accessible from that web address. |
| 500 Internal Server Error |
Indicates that a Web site is temporarily inaccessible due to its own server issues, site maintenance, etc. |
| Access Role |
Can only view material posted to the TRACS site and add documents to the dropbox tool; cannot modify the site unless granted permission. |
| Access Settings |
In the TRACS Resources Tool, files/folders can be set as viewable by the entire site, the public, or select group(s). |
| Account Tool |
TRACS feature found only in My Workspace that contains basic information on the user, including name and email address. |
| Activation |
The process of changing from inactive to active status |
| Active |
Means that something is accessible to site participants. |
| AdminCentral |
Displays both Gato Web sites and documents in the Document Management System. From AdminCentral, documents or pages can be added, moved, activated, deactivated, edited, or deleted. |
| Anchor |
Allows for tags to be linked to directly on a webpage and can be used to divide a page into navigable sections. For example, pages which are long can include a "Back to top" link to allow users to immediately return to the top of the page. |
| Announcements Tool |
TRACS tool used to inform site participants about items of interest or importance, such as changes in deadlines, schedules, and policies of the class or project. |
| Application Porthole |
Gato paragraph type that allows site administrators to embed the content of another Web site within a Gato page. |
| Archive |
A file containing one or more files in compressed format for more efficient storage and transfer. |
| Assessment Types |
Either a Test or Survey, two types of test that have different pre-loaded settings associated with them. |
| Assessments |
Tests, quizzes, exams, polls, and/or surveys. |
| Assessments Tool |
TRACS tool used to create and administer online surveys, quizzes, and exams. |
| Assignments Tool |
TRACS tool used to create, distribute, collect and grade online assignments. |
| Asterisk |
A star-shaped symbol, *. |
| Attachments |
A function that allows users to attach documents in Announcements, Assignments, Discussion, Calendar and Syllabus Tools. |
| Banner Image |
Site administrators in Gato can set a banner image for a page or pages using the Properties button. Adding a banner will expand the top portion of the page and display the image between the site title and site information. |
| Blog Tool |
TRACS tool used to create a site journal where site participants may post, view, and respond to messages. |
| Brace |
A symbol, { or }, resembling wavy parentheses. |
| Brackets |
Symbols, [ and ], resembling parentheses with square corners. |
| Browser |
A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks. |
| Cache |
A place where data can be stored in a computer and retrieved more quickly than from a slower device such as a disk. |
| Calendar Events Paragraph |
Gato paragraph type that allows events from the University Events Calendar to be displayed on a page. |
| Calendar Tool |
TRACS tool that allows site maintainers to post items in a calendar format, with day, week, month, year, and flat list views. Used to alert site participants class or meeting dates, deadlines, web assignment dates, special events, etc. |
| Chat Room Tool |
TRACS tool that allows real-time, unstructured conversations among site participants who are signed on to the site at the same time. |
| Checkbox |
A small box on which an x or check mark appears when the option indicated next to the box is turned on, and disappears when the option is turned off. |
| Citations List |
Tool that allows you to search library resources (e.g., WorldCat, Academic Search [EBSCO], JSTOR), as well as create and manage citations and persistent links to articles and other online items. |
| CMS |
A content management system (CMS) allows contributors to add content to a Web site without requiring knowledge of HTML and specific web technologies. |
| Connections |
Feature of the Profile tool in My Workspace that allows users to search for TRACS users and request to see their information. |
| Contextual Navigation |
Links which occur only on the selected Gato page. |
| Cookies |
A data file written to a hard drive by some Web sites that contains information the site can use to track such things as passwords, login, registration or identification, user preferences, online shopping cart information, and lists of pages visited. |
| Core Assessments |
Assessments that have been created in the site. Core assessments can be re-used and imported to other sites when the Import from Site feature is used. |
| Course Site |
A TRACS course site is used to present coursework, documents and materials for a course. |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to alter the format and presentation of a webpage. It acts as an extension of HTML. |
| CSV file |
Comma Separated Value (CSV) is a file format used to upload into Post’Em that can be opened in Excel and viewed as a table. |
| DAT file |
The type of file that is used by the University Testing Center to return Scantron administered test results. |
| Database |
An organized collection of data, kept in a suitably accessible form on a computer, that has been arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval. |
| Default |
A particular setting or value that is automatically assigned by an application or operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the user. |
| DMS |
The Document Management System (DMS) allows Gato users to upload, manage, and share documents. Documents can be managed through AdminCentral and displayed on a site using Gato Edit. |
| Document Management System |
The Document Management System (DMS) allows Gato users to upload, manage, and share documents. Documents can be managed through AdminCentral and displayed on a site using Gato Edit. |
| Download |
To transfer data or programs from a server or host computer to one's own computer or device. |
| Dropbox Tool |
TRACS tool that enables instructors and students to share documents within a private folder for each student. |
| Dropdown List/Menu |
On a site, an item that, when activated, displays (drops down) a list of values, from which the user may select one. When a drop-down list is inactive, it displays a single value. |
| Email Archive |
Another name for the Mailing List Archive Tool in TRACS. |
| Export |
To send data from one program to another. |
| External Link |
Directs users on a Web site to another page of content outside of that site. |
| Extract |
To decompress or "pull out" original files from a compressed archive. |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) is a paragraph type in Gato which allows users to hide or show answers to posted questions. |
| Feedback |
Any comments, grades, or other components you want users to view once they have completed an assessment. |
| Flash |
Adobe Flash is a multimedia application that can be used to develop web content. It allows for the manipulation of graphics, video, audio and web applications. |
| Form |
An online form allows users to input information to be submitted to a specified e-mail address. Users can sign up for workshops, request information, leave feedback, etc. |
| Forums Tool |
TRACS tool used to create unlimited, threaded, online discussion boards for course or project sites. |
| Gato |
A content management system that allows contributors to add content to a Web site without requiring knowledge of HTML and specific web technologies. |
| Gato Edit |
An instance of Gato which allows site administrators to edit and save changes to content. |
| Google Analytics |
Provides detailed Web site traffic information and statistics such as which links are clicked and how users are accessing and navigating the site. Requires a Google Analytics account. |
| Grade Category |
In Gradebook, you can create categories, and assign Gradebook items to them. Also, you can assign percentages to the categories, thereby weighting them and the items they contain. |
| Grade History Log |
In the Gradebook, a tool that records the date of each grade change, as well as the updated grade, and the name of the user who made the change. |
| Gradebook Tool |
TRACS tool used to calculate, store, and distribute student grade information online. |
| Grader Role |
Only has access to tools relating to grades; cannot modify anything else in the TRACS site. Has the ability to: add, remove, and modify grades; grade assignments and assessments; add postem files; and maintain dropboxes. |
| Guest Role |
Has ability to view TRACS site content without viewing any potential confidential information; can access resources; can view announcements, calendar entries, chatroom postings, discussion board, polls, and wiki. |
| Home |
TRACS page that contains a description of the site, recent announcements, forums, and messages displayed to the site participants. |
| Hot Links |
A linked object, often an image, that will take a user from one web page to a second site. A predefined connection between programs so that when information in one database or file is changed, related information in other databases and files is also updated. |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language; a markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web. |
| Import |
To receive data into one program from another; to convert a file into the format required by the application being used. |
| IMS QTI-XML file |
Exported tests, assessments, surveys, and quizzes need to be saved in this format in order to be imported. |
| Inactive |
An item that is inactive is inaccessible to site participants. |
| Info Page |
In a TRACS wiki, a page that includes a printer-friendly version of the page and an HTML version. |
| Inherited Navigation |
Links from a top level page (Parent) are shared throughout all of the Gato pages immediately below it (Children). |
| Instructor Role |
Has the ability to do anything in a TRACS course site. |
| Internal Link |
Directs users on a Gato Web site to another page of content within that site. |
| IP address |
Internet Protocol Address Management; a computer's numeric address, such as 128.201.86.290, by which it can be located within a network. |
| Joinable Sites |
In the Membership Tool, other sites that you can becaome a member of because they have granted Global access. |
| Learning Modules Tool |
TRACS tool for creating lessons in sequential order with resources and next steps associated with the module. |
| Link Checker |
A tool for Gato site administrators to be notified by e-mail when a link on their Web site is broken, missing text, or otherwise inaccessible to users. |
| Loading Dock |
In Gradebook, the way to import Gradebook items from a spreadsheet. |
| Local File Repository |
A personal folder on the university server that users can create, using a utility called WebDAV, to connect to their Resources folder in TRACS to their computer desktop. |
| Mailing List Archive Tool |
TRACS tool that provides an email address for the site, and is used to send and store email messages within the site. |
| Mailtool |
TRACS tool used to send email to individuals or groups in the site. |
| Membership Tool |
TRACS tool found only in My Workspace that allows user to join and un-join other TRACS sites. |
| Menu Bar |
A horizontal or vertical strip near the top of the screen or browser window, containing the titles of available pull-down menus or the names of currently available commands. |
| Message Of The Day |
Typically an educational quote or message that appears in My Workspace in TRACS. |
| Messages Tool |
Tool used to send messages within TRACS, (Messages sent from here DO NOT go to TSU email accounts.) |
| Metadata |
In the TRACS Assessment Types settings, an option that allows for the searching of text within an assessment. |
| My Workspace |
When you log into TRACS, My Workspace is your personal online worksite where you create course or project sites. Your workspace has features common to course and project sites, including Announcements, Resources, Calendar, Site Info, and Help. It also has features found only in My Workspace such as Account, Membership, Preferences, Profile, Bobcat Mail, and Worksite Setup. |
| Navigation |
A way to move within and outside of a Web site using menus, links, and other devices. |
| Net ID |
A NetID consists of your initals and 4 or 5 numbers, such as az12345; it is not your Texas State ID number, or PLID . |
| News Feeds Tool |
TRACS tool used to display automatically-updated (RSS) news feeds from a variety of sources within a site. |
| Notification Methods |
A Tool for Announcements, Email Archive, Resources and Syllabus that allows users to choose whether or not to receive email notification when items are posted on the sites they are members of. |
| Page Order Tool |
In the TRACS Site Info Tool, a tool that allows users to add, hide, remove, rearrange, and rename their site's tools. |
| Pending Assessments |
Pending assessments are those assessments which have been published but are not yet visible to students. The date that the assessment will become available appears next to the assessment itself. |
| Permissions |
Rules that allow or prevent users from seeing or performing certain tasks, depending on a user’s “role”. |
| Persistent Navigation |
Links which occur on every page throughout a Gato Web site. |
| Pipe |
A symbol, |, created on most computers by hitting the Shift key and the key with the broken bar symbol, ¦. |
| Podcast |
An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player. |
| Podcast Tool |
TRACS tool that allows instructors to post podcasts (audio files) of their lectures for students to download and listen to at their leisure. |
| Polls Tool |
TRACS tool used to create simple, anonymous polls for site participants to take. |
| Post'Em Tool |
TRACS tool that allows instructors to quickly post grades, attendance records, extra credit and seating assignments on TRACS using a CSV (formatted Excel file) file, without compromising student privacy. |
| Preferences Tool |
TRACS tool found only in My Workspace used to choose how to receive emails to course and/or project sites, and email notifications of new announcements and resources. |
| Privacy Settings |
An option in TRACS in the Profile section of My Workspace Tool that allows users to choose who can view their Profile information. |
| Profile Tool |
Tool found only in My Workspace that allows users to create an online profile with information such as name, position, department, phone number, location, and photo and share it with people they choose. |
| Project Site |
A TRACS project site is used for collaboration on research, for committee work, for collaborative development projects, for clubs and organizations, and more. |
| Properties |
In Gato Edit, the Properties button allows site administrators to set general page properties such as a title, upload a banner image, input metadata, or use advanced features such as password protection. |
| Published Assessments |
Once a TRACS Assessment is published, the creator cannot add, delete, or modify its questions, only modify the delivery dates and feedback settings. A published assessment has to be retracted from student view if any changes need to be made. |
| Question Pool |
A set of questions that have been created and added to a pool to be used in TRACS assessments. |
| Radio Button |
On a site, one of a group of small circles that represent a set of choices (indicated by text next to the circles) from which only one can be selected; the selected choice is indicated by a filled circle. |
| Random Question Assessment |
A TRACS assessment which draws its questions randomly from a question pool. |
| Redirect |
Automatically sends users to another webpage. In Gato, once the template for a page is set to "Redirect", the URL of the page can be set using the Properties button. |
| Resources Tool |
TRACS tool used to upload, post and organize course documents, electronic files, or web links for users to access for a course or project. |
| Retracted Assessments |
TRACS assessments which can no longer be taken by site participants. |
| Rich Text Editor |
A modifiable text area that includes paragraph formatting options such as text alignment, fonts, bold, underline, italic, etc. |
| RIS format |
In the TRACS Citations List Tool, a special file format for expressing bibliographic citations. |
| Roles |
The different sets of permissions that set limits on what users of a course or project site can and cannot do, such as post new items, read, revise, and/or delete files . |
| Roster Tool |
Tool used to view the site participant list, profiles, and official university ID photos. (Only the instructor role has the necessary permissions to use this tool.) |
| RSS feed |
Provides continuously updated content from another Web site that appears on your site. |
| Scripting |
Programming languages which allow for the manipulation and control of software. Javascript, for example, is used within Web browsers to add dynamic features to Web sites such as pop-up windows. |
| Section Info Tool |
Tool used to manage sections within a site. |
| Server |
A computer that provides information to other machines, such as documents that are components of webpages. |
| Side Navigation |
In Gato, the links on the left side of the page which can be inherited, contextual, and/or persistent links. |
| Sidebar |
The area of a wiki page where creators can place their main navigation in order for users to easily access pages. |
| Sign-Up Tool |
TRACS tool that allows site participants to sign up for office hours, presentation times, test times, paper topics, study sessions, etc. |
| Site Assistant Role |
Has access to modify all course aspects except for those tools dealing with grades; does not have access to gradebook, assessments, assignments, or postem. |
| Site Collaboration Role |
Has ability to add or remove their own items to a course but cannot remove anything else; can use the mailtool; cannot look at grades other than their own. |
| Site Info Tool |
Tool used to make changes to a site, such as adding or removing tools, adding participants, and changing access settings |
| Site Maintainer Role |
Has the ability to do anything in a TRACS project site, including the ability to delete it. |
| Site Map |
Gato paragraph type which displays and links to every page within a site using either a hierarchal or alphabetical structure. |
| Site Stats Tool |
TRACS tool used to track use of the site by user, event, or resource. |
| Spreadsheet |
A software program that displays data in rows and columns on a screen. |
| Statistics |
A type of analysis where data is collected, analyzed, and summarized in numerical form. |
| Status (User) |
Active status participants have access to the TRACS site; inactive status participants no longer have access to the site. |
| Streaming Video |
A video file which has been uploaded to a server that allows the video to be played "live" on the web page rather than forcing users to download the video file. |
| Student Role |
Only has the ability to view material posted to the TRACS site and add documents to the dropbox tool; cannot modify the site unless granted permission. |
| Sub-Pages |
Gato paragraph type which displays links to all the pages immediately below the selected page in the navigation hierarchy. |
| Syllabus Tool |
TRACS tool used to upload a syllabus or link to an online syllabus. |
| Tab/Tabs |
A navigational utility for switching between webpages in a browser. It usually looks like a text label, sometimes within a rectangular box with its top borders rounded. Activating a tab (usually by a mouse click) makes its associated content visible and the tab itself usually becomes highlighted to distinguish it from inactive tabs. |
| Teaching Assistant Role |
Has the ability to do anything in a TRACS course site except hide the site from student view and create a course site; otherwise the same privileges as an instructor role. |
| Template |
A document or file having a preset format, used as a starting point for a particular application so that the format does not have to be recreated each time it is used. |
| Thread |
A set of posts on a forum, composed of an initial post about a topic and all responses to it. |
| Thumbnail |
A smaller version or section of an image that allows users to quickly preview the image. |
| Toolbar |
A row of icons on a computer screen that activate commands or functions when clicked. |
| Top Navigation |
The menu at the top of a webpage which displays all top level pages of a Gato site unless hidden from navigation. The pages immediately below the top level pages appear as a dropdown menu. |
| TRACS |
TRACS (Teaching, Research, And Collaboration System) is a new open-source collaborative learning environment. TRACS can be used to create two types of sites: course sites and project sites. |
| Unpublished Assessments |
Assessment creators can only add, delete, or modify questions and components--including settings--of an unpublished TRACS assessment. |
| Upload |
To transfer data from a peripheral computer or device to a central, often remote computer. |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator; a web link; an Internet address (for example, http://www.google.com/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade) |
| Web Browser |
A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks. |
| Web Content Tool |
TRACS tool used to link to outside websites, which are displayed on the menu bar of the site. |
| WebDAV |
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning; a utility that allows you to drag and drop files and folders from your local computer hard drive to Resources in your TRACS workspace or in your course or project site(s). |
| Weighted Grade |
A grade that has been adjusted to reflect a set value or proportion. |
| Wiki |
A wiki is a Web site that allows users of the site to edit it. This allows for joint authoring and ownership and is different from conventional Web sites which can only be edited by the webmaster. |
| Wiki Tool |
TRACS tool used for collaborative editing of pages and content. |
| Worksite Setup Tool |
TRACS tool found only in My Workspace that is used to create project and course websites. |
| WYSIWYG Editor |
In some tools, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor is used to enter text and other content, and allows for formatting of text similar to a computer office program such as Microsoft Word. |
| XHTML |
EXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is a version of HTML; a markup language used to structure web pages. |
| Zip File |
A file that contains one or more files that have been compressed into the ZIP format. |
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