Glossary

Organization

• Represents an educational institution such as a school or university.
• Examples: 〇〇専門学校, 〇〇大学

Group

• A unit within an organization.
• Examples: 〇〇学科 1 年（2026 年度）, 〇年〇組
• Student progress tracking and learning analytics are intended to be managed at the group level.

Member

• A user who belongs to an organization or group.
• Includes both instructors and students.

Course

• A unit that groups together teaching materials as a whole, such as Python 言語の基礎 or Java 演習.
• Corresponds to one subject in a class.

Class

• A unit of teaching material that makes up a course.
• Corresponds to one class session.

Material

• The smallest unit of teaching material.
• Includes explanatory text, problems, submission settings, and so on.

How People Are Referred To

The help guides refer to roles as follows. For details on permissions, see Types of Roles and What They Can Do.

Term in Guides	Permission	Intended Person
Implementation Lead	Organization Administrator	Overall manager for an entire school or faculty, administrative staff
Instructor	Group Administrator	Teachers in charge of classes or courses, TAs
Material Author	Member of the material repository	People who create and maintain materials in the GitHub material repository
Student	General Member	Students taking classes

On screen, students may be displayed as "学生," "学習者," or "受講者," and instructors as "教員," but these have the same meaning.

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