Terminology

People

• Responsible for the evaluation system are the student representatives/Fachschaftsrat. For convenience reasons the student representatives are also called (the) FSR for short (adopted from the representative's name at Hasso Plattner Insitute). They work as administrators of the system and have full edit rights for users, courses and questionnaires.
• All people 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. The responsible person always has edit rights.
• Delegates/Stellvertreter are people who are assigned to other people. A delegate has the combined edit rights for courses of all people he or she is representing.
• A student/Student is a person enrolled in a course.
• Students who are taking part in the evaluation by answering questionnaires are called participants/Teilnehmer.
• Any person using the system at any time is called a user/Benutzer.
• Users without Kerberos credentials need a login key/Anmeldeschlüssel to log in.

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/Semester that describes when the course took place.
• 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.

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 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 or contributors.

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.