WebJunction

Term	Description
Account	Information about individual members, including affiliations
Activity	Key actions taken by a user on the site
Affiliation	Membership in a particular organization
Author	The person who wrote a piece of content
Avatar	Member's profile picture
BP Documents	Documents created on a branded portal versus those on WebJunction
Branded portal	WebJunction partner sites, which display branding elements unique to each partner
Breadcrumb	Navigation path for a page
CEU	Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are a way to formally track non-credit coursework that contributes to professional development. Typically one CEU credit is awarded for every ten hours of course work or instruction. CEUs are awarded by a variety of institutions and organizations, including universities and professional bodies.
Comments	Member-generated text that can be found in relation to courses and other members
Contact Hours	The number of hours users received instruction during a live offering of a course
Content	Text, graphics, video, audio on a web page
Contributor	The author and one who posted a piece of content
Coupon	Code given for use of bulk-purchased course units
Course Length	The estimated amount of time the average user needs to take a course
Course Provider	The organization that created the course, i.e. SkillSoft
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet commonly applied to web pages.
Discussions	Applications that allow users to post and reply to messages from other users and to track the flow of the messages
Document	Any text, graphics, video or audio file
Duration	The estimated amount of time the average user needs to take a course
Group	A member created topic area which provides the ability for group members to contribute documents and discussions around a chosen topic
Group Moderator	A member who created a group and who has permissions to moderate the documents and discussions in that group
Guest	Users not logged in or not registered
Join	Register for membership at WebJunction and with WebJunction partners
Member	A registered user
My Account	The portlet containing Quick Links, Affiliations, Admin Options menu and Edit Account link. Displays on the right panel of the site once you are signed in.
Navigation	A portlet providing a directory of links reflecting the portal’s page structure, with drill down into the current page. Style and appearance can be adjusted.
Nested portlet	A portlet that contains other portlets and describes the layout of those portlets
Parent	The highest-level page in a hierarchy of pages
Portal	A website that is the starting point for a user’s access to information
Portlet	Small web applications that run in a portion of a web page
Post	To add content such as documents, comments or discussions to the site
Push	Content from WebJunction Central that is automatically added to the branded portals
Pull	WebJunction Central content accepted by branded portal administrators
Rating	A five-star system for members to rank the value of content
Resources	A portlet that provides Overview, Documents and Discussions functionality; when this portlet appears on a page, its title changes from “Resources” to the name of the page
RSS	Really Simple Syndication: formats used to publish frequently updated content
Self Paced	An asynchronous course format - Enrollees have the ability to begin and go through the course content at their own pace, and to revisit the course until it expires one year after the enrollment date
Shared page	A page generated by WebJunction Central that appears within partner sites
Sign In/Out	Registered members log in to receive the privileges associated with their membership and log out when they leave the site
Super Topic Page	Name of a primary content section; these pages are typically at the top level of the page hierarchy and display as tabs across the top of the page
Tab	A page at the top level of a site’s page hierarchy; these pages automatically display as navigation tabs across the top of the site (Also used to delimit content types in the Resources portlet)
Tags	Key words or phrases for organizing content and aiding the ability to search
Target Audience	A specified audience or group for which a course is designed
Threads	A series of emails or discussions
Topic moderator	A WJ member who has permissions to moderate the discussions and documents within a topic area of the site
Topic page	A section page on the site collecting documents and discussions around a specific topic
Users	A general reference to guests, members and partners when the specific term cannot be used
WebJunction Central	The site run by the WebJunction team
Wiki	An online resource that allows users to add and edit content collaboratively
WJ Content	A portlet administrators can create to display HTML in any location on one page
WYSIWYG editor	A text entry and editing tool where content during editing appears very similar to the final product (the acronym stands for "What You See Is What You Get")