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Words explained
Glossary
Oxonia uses some words from software and some from university life. Here they are in plain English.
Platform
- Oxonia Academy ID. The one account behind every Oxonia product, linked to your university's own sign-in. See Oxonia Academy ID
- App launcher. The first screen after sign-in, showing the products you can use
- Admin console. Where your university's admins set up sign-in, roles, products and AI credits
- Role. Leader, admin, lecturer, student or researcher. Roles decide what you see
- Suite. A group of products for one audience: Lead, Operate, Teach, Learn or Discover
- Ai enabled. A feature that uses AI to draft, answer or analyse, under Oxonia's rules
- AI credits. How AI use is counted when a university uses Oxonia's shared wallet
Teaching and learning
- Live captions. Text of the lecture shown as it happens, in the student's chosen language
- Study pack. What Scribe makes from a lecture: summary, key moments, mind map, quiz, flashcards and audio recap
- Key moments. The main points of a lecture, each linked to the minute
- Spaced repetition. Questions you got wrong come back until you get them right
- Sam. The fellow student in Oxonia Tutor who joins in with other views
- Viva, debate and moot. Tutorial formats for oral exams, argued positions and mock courtrooms
Assessment
- Rubric. The marking scheme. In Oxonia Mark it is calibrated and approved before marking starts
- Confidence score. How sure the system is about a mark
- Review queue. Scripts that need a person to look closely: uncertain, illegible, borderline or flagged
- Blind sampling. External examiners mark samples without seeing earlier marks
- Broadsheet. The table of results for a course or programme
- AI-use declaration. A student's statement of how they used AI on an assessment
Governance and administration
- Board pack. The papers for a meeting, compiled for members
- Quorum. The number of members needed for a meeting to make decisions
- Resolutions register. The record of decisions a body has made
- Circular. A message sent to many staff, with read receipts in Oxonia Office
- Letters register. A log of incoming and outgoing letters
- AI-use register. A list of every AI tool the university uses, kept in Oxonia Policy
- Readiness score. In Oxonia Policy, a live score of AI governance built from real evidence
Quality and records
- Regulator return. Information a university must send to its regulator, prepared in Oxonia Nexus
- Self-study. A university's own review of a programme, prepared for accreditation
- Panel visit. A visit by reviewers for accreditation
Research and integrations
- ORCID. A persistent identifier for researchers. See ORCID
- LTI 1.3. The open standard that connects Oxonia to learning platforms. See LTI 1.3
- SAML and Shibboleth. Standards for university sign-in. See SAML and Shibboleth
- In-country hosting. Keeping a university's data in its own country, as an add-on. See Data residency
Related
Help centreFind answers about using Oxonia, whether you are a student, a lecturer, an administrator or a leader.Guides and how-tosShort, practical guides for the tasks people do most often in Oxonia. Each one follows the same steps you will see in the product.Oxonia Academy IDStaff and students sign in once with the account the university already gives them. The Oxonia Academy ID then opens every product the university has bought.