Glossary
Definitions of the terms used across EduPrime – the school, higher-education, compliance and integration vocabulary in one place.
Where to find it — App drawer → EduPrime → Transfers.
Terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| SIS | Student Information System – the core record of every student, the foundation EduPrime is built on. |
| Stream | A parallel division of a class/grade (e.g. Form 1 East, Form 1 West) used to split large year groups. |
| House | A pastoral grouping that cuts across classes, used for competitions, points and boarding belonging. |
| Cohort | An intake of students admitted to a programme together and progressing as a group. |
| Programme | A higher-education qualification (degree, diploma, certificate) made up of credit-bearing courses. |
| Course / unit | A credit-bearing module within a programme, with its own marks and credit value. |
| Credit | A unit of academic weight earned by passing a course; credits accumulate toward an award. |
| GPA / CGPA | Grade-Point Average for a term / Cumulative GPA across all terms – credit-weighted measures of performance. |
| Transcript | The official record of courses taken, grades, credits and GPA toward a qualification. |
| IEP | Individualised Education Plan – a tailored plan and goals for a learner with special educational needs. |
| OPAC | Online Public Access Catalogue – the searchable front end of the library catalogue. |
| MARC21 | The standard bibliographic record format used by the library module. |
| CBET | Competency-Based Education & Training – vocational learning assessed as Competent / Not Yet Competent against occupational standards. |
| TVET | Technical and Vocational Education & Training – the sector CBET serves. |
| Unit of competency | A discrete, assessable skill area within a CBET qualification. |
| IB DP | International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme – a pre-university qualification graded on the 1–7 scale. |
| CAS | Creativity, Activity, Service – an experiential core requirement of the IB Diploma. |
| Extended Essay (EE) | An independent ~4,000-word research piece required in the IB Diploma. |
| Predicted grade | The school’s forecast of an exam grade, used for university applications. |
| Bursary | Need-based financial assistance reducing a student’s fees. |
| Scholarship | Merit-based financial award reducing or covering fees. |
| Dunning | The automated sequence of reminders chasing overdue fee balances. |
| Aging | The grouping of outstanding balances by how long they have been overdue. |
| Bria | EduPrime’s AI early-warning engine that scores student risk and tracks interventions. |
| Intervention | A logged action taken to support an at-risk student, tracked to outcome. |
| LTI | Learning Tools Interoperability – the standard (1.3) for secure launch and grade exchange between an LMS and EduPrime. |
| SCORM | A packaging standard for self-contained e-learning content with completion tracking. |
| xAPI | Experience API (Tin Can) – records granular learning activity to a learning record store. |
| SSO | Single Sign-On – logging in through a central identity provider (OIDC or SAML). |
| Webhook | An outbound HTTP notification EduPrime sends when a subscribed event occurs. |
| ODPC | Office of the Data Protection Commissioner – Kenya’s data-protection regulator. |
| SAR | Subject-Access Request – a data subject’s request for a copy of their personal data. |
| ROPA | Record of Processing Activities – the inventory of how an institution processes personal data. |
| KEMIS / NEMIS | National education management information systems to which schools file statutory returns. |
| Record rule | A database-level rule that restricts which records a role can see – the basis of confidential-data protection. |
Tip — Hand new staff this glossary on day one. A shared vocabulary – especially the difference between a stream, a cohort and a house – prevents most onboarding confusion.
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