1EdTech Glossary (SANDBOX VERSION)

Technical Advisory Board (TAB)  - a member-only committee who reviews and approves the activities of its working bodies - Task Forces and Project Groups - which are working for specification chartering and development. 

Example: The TAB will need to review the next candidate final for the CLR Standard before it can be considered a final release. 

A profile of the Common Cartridge specification that provides a standardized way to package and exchange Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Links, Web Links and metadata

In LTI parlance, the tool serves as the service provider as they are the application granting access to the resources or activities.  In prior versions of LTI this was called the ‘tool provider’ but that verbiage does not align with industry standard terminology and was retired. 

Tool is also commonly used as a shorthand when someone means “any learning application”

To make your ecosystem interoperable, suppliers have to exchange content packages or frameworks. Tool consumers are the suppliers that have the ability to accept (consume) a connection to digital objects from another supplier, or a ingest a package from another supplier. 

For example: CASE "consumers" are platforms that ingest the States' CASE-formatted learning standards (or CASE frameworks). The platform has been built it can "consume" the frameworks and use them to tag lessons, activities, or quizzes.

A tool "provider" has code to authorize a connection with another tool (a digital bridge.)  

For example, a CASE Provider opens a digital bridge, so the LMS or LOR can consume (ingest) the CASE frameworks (or states standards.)

A set of software tools and dashboards provided by 1EdTech that help institutional members make smart choices regarding their software ecosystem.

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The TrustEd Apps program is the 1dTech process of vetting applications and certifying them for data privacy using the rubric which was collaboratively developed by the 1EdTech community. The TrusteEd App Vetting Rubric covers the base set of questions that K-12 districts and higher ed institutions need to ask when vetting an application's data privacy policy and terms of use. To establish this series of "must ask" questions, the participants compared all of the questions collected from K-12 districts, higher education institutions, and external organizations and selected all of the questions that were similarly being asked by each group. The main objective of the rubric is to develop a baseline for evaluating a product's data privacy protections that an institution may use as a component of its own application review process.