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University

To allow students to register and enrol in courses.

student​

A person who would like to study a course.

Examples:

  • The student has registered at the university.
  • The student has enroled in the course.

register​

The process of a student registering with the university. They will not yet be enroled in a course after registering.

Examples:

  • The student has registered and is intending to enrol in 3 courses.

room​

A physical space that a course can be delivered in. Since it has a physical size it has a limited capacity for the number of students who can attend a course in the room.

Examples:

  • The room doesn't yet have any courses assigned to it.

capacity​

The number of students who can enrol in a course that is happening in the room.

Examples:

  • The capacity of the room is 10.

setup​

The process of defining a new room that is available at the university. Usually only done once when the university is setting up the system, but may be done if they reconfigure their layouts.

Examples:

  • The admin has setup a new room.

course​

A unit of study that is focussed on a topic or group of related topics.

Examples:

  • The student is enroling in the "Ancient History: Myths and Legends" course.
  • 10 students have enroled in the Test-Driven Development course.

catalog​

The list of courses that are available for students to enrol in.

Examples:

  • The catalog has 10 courses available.

include​

The process of including a course in the catalog.

Examples:

  • The administrator hasn't yet included my course in the catalog.

enrol​

To enrol in a course is for a student to tell the university that they will study that course.

Examples:

  • I would like to enrol in Urban Geography.

enroling​

The process of a student enroling in a course.

Examples:

  • I am enroling in Advanced Domain Modeling.

enrolment​

A student enrols in a course and when they do we record their enrolment. The enrolment keeps track of which student has enroled in which course.

Examples:

  • A course has 5 enrolments so far.

schedule​

Either the process of creating a schedule, or the schedule itself, where the schedule is a definition of which courses are assigned to which rooms.

Examples:

  • I will be scheduling the courses on Friday, after enrolments are closed.