Glossary of terms

This list explains terms as the apps use them. The “App” column names where the term appears. The articles on each topic explain them in full, for example Roles and permissions, Learner places and quotas, Assign an obligation in the training matrix, Versions and corrections and View and share credentials.

A

Term	App	Meaning
Access type	Hub	Operator or contributor. It decides how a person takes part and which seats of the workspace they occupy.
AI tutor	Player	Answers questions about a course from its published version and its approved sources and shows where the answer comes from. It is locked during an exam.
Announcement	Campus	A short message to learners that appears in the Player on the start page and in the bell. In institutions, announcements belong to Campus Full.
Assortment	Channel	The selection of product groups available to an entry of the network. Courses become available through their product group.
Attendance	Campus	The tab of a live training where you record who was there and who completed the session.

B

Term	App	Meaning
Block	Studio	The part a lesson is made of, for example heading, text, note or knowledge check.

C

Term	App	Meaning
Cadence	Campus	How often an obligation recurs: once, yearly, every 2 years, quarterly or every 1 to 120 months.
Campus	Campus	The app “Train your own staff” for training teams in institutions and at manufacturers: learners, learning paths, obligations, sessions.
Campus Full	Campus	The higher tier of Campus for institutions. Only with it are Hub, Studio, live training and announcements available there too.
Campus Light	Campus	The basic tier of Campus for institutions without Campus Full. With it the institution works in Campus and the Player.
Campus manager	Campus	The person with the task “Manage Campus”. They manage people, sessions and the training matrix and assign courses.
Certificate	Player	Arises when you pass the final exam of a course with a certificate or, depending on the course, complete the course. It names the issuer and can have an expiry date.
Channel	Channel	The app “Sales, partners, distribution” for manufacturers: network, partners, learning content and learner places. Institution workspaces have no Channel.
Chapter	Studio	A level of structure in a course. Chapters group lessons.
Contributor	Hub	An access type for people who have one limited task in one app. It occupies a contributor seat.
Correction	Studio	A kind of publication for errors that do not change the learning path. Ongoing runs without a certificate switch to the corrected state.
Course	Studio, Player	Learning content made of chapters and lessons, possibly with a final assessment. It is created in Studio and learned in the Player.
Course language	Player	The language a course is published in. If a course offers several, learners choose one before starting. It is separate from the interface language.
Credential	Player	A certificate or a completion without a certificate. Credentials belong to the personal Fracto account and stay even if the institution changes.

D

Term	App	Meaning
Department	Campus	A subdivision of an institution. Obligations can be limited to one department, and a department lead sees only the people of that department.
Draft	Studio	The state of a course you are working on. It is saved automatically; learners never see the draft, only a published version.

F

Term	App	Meaning
Final assessment	Studio, Player	The exam for a whole course. It consists of a question pool and rules for completion; passing it can lead to a certificate. In the Player’s course outline it is called “Final exam”.

H

Term	App	Meaning
Hub	Hub	The app “Workspace and access”: people, organization, contract and usage. Only people with the task “Administer workspace” see these areas; everyone else sees only Overview and Inbox in the Hub.

I

Term	App	Meaning
Inbox	All apps	The place where you read messages and replies to support tickets.
Institution	Campus, Channel	A clinic, practice or similar organisation that uses courses and trains its staff. It works in an institution workspace.
Institution workspace	Hub	The workspace of an institution. Hub and Studio are available there only with Campus Full.

K

Term	App	Meaning
Knowledge check	Studio	A block in a lesson with questions. It is independent of the final assessment.

L

Term	App	Meaning
Learner place	Channel, Campus, Player	Allows a person to learn within the pool period (“a personal learning year”). Once occupied, it stays bound until the end of the period. A contributor seat is not a learner place.
Learning path	Campus	Bundles courses on one topic. A learning path does not assign anything yet; it becomes an obligation only in the training matrix.
Lecturer	Campus	The person who runs a live training. Only a Campus manager creates lecturers.
Lesson	Studio, Player	A section of a course made of blocks. A lesson is finished when nothing is open any more.
Live training	Campus	A session with a lecturer, in person, online or hybrid. In institutions, live training belongs to Campus Full.

M

Term	App	Meaning
Manufacturer campus	Channel, Campus	A manufacturer’s campus. Its own staff and the staff of sales partners learn there.
Manufacturer workspace	Hub	The workspace of a manufacturer. Only it has Channel.

N

Term	App	Meaning
Network	Channel	How a manufacturer’s sales are set up: regions, within them internal teams and partners, and institutions alongside.
Network lead	Channel	The person who manages the whole network. Only they can create a new partner organization.

O

Term	App	Meaning
Obligation	Campus	A training a person must complete. Usually it arises from the training matrix: a learning path is assigned to a role, with cadence, deadline and start date. A Campus manager can also assign a training directly to a person.
Operator	Hub	An access type for people who work in several apps. A person with this access type can have any number of tasks; together they occupy one operator seat.

P

Term	App	Meaning
Partner	Channel	An external organization that stands as its own network entry in a region. In Campus the same entry is called a partner group.
Partner lead	Channel	The person who manages the business relationship with a partner and the institutions assigned to it.
Player	Player	The app “Learner view” where learners take their courses. It runs in the browser.
Pool	Channel	All learner places of a workspace. It is a hard limit; more learner places are only available through the Hub.
Pool period	Channel	The period the pool is valid for, for example “until 31/12/2027”. Occupied learner places are bound until its end.
Product	Channel	An entry in the product catalog that belongs to a product group. Courses are attached to products.
Product group	Channel	Groups products. A partner’s assortment is made of product groups.
Publish	Studio	Records a course state as a version and releases it to learners. After that you keep working in the draft without changing the published version.

Q

Term	App	Meaning
Quota	Channel, Campus	The number of learner places an entry of the network or an institution has received. An entry with a quota can pass learner places on to the entries below it.

R

Term	App	Meaning
Recovery code	All apps	A one-time code for two-factor sign-in when you do not have the device with the authenticator app. Each code works only once.
Region	Channel	An area of responsibility and quota in the network. A region can cover a country, several markets or a strategic area.
Review notes	Studio	Comments a reviewer writes on a submitted course. They are attached to the text in the source language, not to the translations.
Reviewer	Studio	A person with the task “Review courses”. They read the frozen state of the course and approve it or request changes.
Role (Campus)	Campus	A group of learners, for example “nurse”, created in learner management. Not to be confused with tasks in the Hub.

S

Term	App	Meaning
Scope	Hub	The area a task applies to, for example a region or a department. You choose it when you give the task.
SCORM	Studio, Campus	An exchange format for learning content. Studio exports a published course version as a SCORM 1.2 package (ZIP file) without assessment. In Campus you upload your own SCORM packages.
Seat (operator, contributor)	Hub	What a person with work access occupies in the workspace: an operator seat or a contributor seat. A learner place is something else.
Sign-in code	All apps	A six-character code of letters and digits, sent by email and valid for 10 minutes. With it you sign in without a password.
Studio	Studio	The app “Create and translate courses” for course authors and reviewers.

T

Term	App	Meaning
Task	Hub	Defines what a person may do in which app, for example “Create courses” in Studio. Fracto has no fixed roles; tasks determine the rights.
Training matrix	Campus	Here Campus managers decide which role must complete which learning paths. Each assignment is a rule with cadence, deadline and start date.
Translation	Studio	A course in another language. Studio translates it with AI, or you translate by hand. The result is a draft; it reaches learners only after review and once published with the course.
Two-factor authentication	All apps	An extra code from an authenticator app when you sign in, except on a device you trusted at sign-in. It is optional; Fracto requires it only from its own staff with platform access.

V

Term	App	Meaning
Version	Studio	A recorded state of a course. At most one version applies to learners at a time.

W

Term	App	Meaning
Work access	Hub	A person’s access to the work apps of a workspace, made up of access type and tasks. It can be paused and ended; the personal account remains.
Workspace	Hub	An organization’s own area in Fracto. There are manufacturer workspaces and institution workspaces; one person can work in several.
Workspace admin	Hub	The person with the task “Administer workspace”. They invite people, give tasks and manage organization, seats and settings.