Terminology

People

• Any person using the system at any time is called a user/Benutzer.
• Responsible for the evaluation system are staff users/Verwalter. They work as administrators of the system and have full edit rights for users, courses, questionnaires, ...
• All users who are added to have teaching roles in a course (lecturers, tutors, etc.) are called contributors/Mitwirkende.
• At every time one of the contributors of a course is the person responsible for the course/Lehrveranstaltungs-Verantwortlicher. This role is assigned by the student representatives.
• Every contributor can get assigned edit rights/Bearbeitungsrechte for a course by any person who already has these edit rights for this very course and thereby becomes an editor/Bearbeiter. The responsible person always has edit rights.
• Delegates/Stellvertreter are users who are assigned to other users. A delegate has the combined edit rights for courses of all users he or she is representing.
• CC-Users/CC-Benutzer are users who are receiving a copy of all emails that are sent to their CC'ing users/in CC setzende Benutzer.
• A student/Student is a person participating in a course.
• Students who are participating in a course are called participants/Teilnehmer of that course.
• Students who took part in the evaluation of a course are called voters/Abstimmende.
• Participants who did not yet take part in the evaluation of a course are called due participants/ausstehende Teilnehmer.
• Users without Kerberos credentials need a login key/Anmeldeschlüssel to log in.

Semester

• A semester/Semester describes a period in which courses can take place. It only has a name but no specified dates.
• There is always one active semester/aktives Semester, which is usually the semester which was created last. It's used for filtering those courses, which are currently of interest.

Courses

(Note: we didn't choose "class" because it's a keyword in python)

• Every single teaching instance is called a course/Lehrveranstaltung.
• A course is always part of a semester.
• Amongst others, courses consist of:
  • A course name/Lehrveranstaltungsname
  • A course type/Lehrveranstaltungstyp decribing the kind of course (e.g. lecture, seminar, project)
  • A degree/Studiengang (i.e. Bachelor or Master)
  • An evaluation period/Evaluierungszeitraum in which the course is available for evaluation
  • Questionnaires that are assigned to the course.
  • The current state/Zustand of the course (see Evaluation States)

Questionnaires

• Each questionnaire/Fragebogen has a name/Name by which it can be referenced.
• A questionnaire consists of one or multiple questions/Fragen.
• To submit a questionnaire during the evaluation process each question must have exactly one answer/Antwort.
• An answer can either be given on a Likert scale/Likert-Skala, a grading scale/Noten-Skala or in a free text field/Freitext-Feld.
• A possible answer is also rating no answer/keine Angabe respectively submitting an empty text field.
• Questionnaires have a questionnaire type/Fragebogentyp defining whether it's used to evaluate courses (course questionnaire/Lehrveranstaltungs-Fragebogen) or contributors (contributor questionnaire/Personenfragebogen).

Data

• The information which courses are taught, what name, type, degree and responsible person they have and which students are enrolled in them is called enrollment data/Belegungsdaten.

Rewards

• Students can get reward points/Belohnungspunkte, when they evaluated all their courses in one semester.
• These points can be redeemed for Reward Point Redemption Events/Veranstaltungen zum Einlösen von Belohnungspunkten, which can be created by staff users.