--- title: Glossary description: Definitions for key Edvello terms, concepts, and platform vocabulary used across the product. --- A glossary is a specialized reference tool that explains the terms used throughout a product, document, or field in plain language. This glossary is designed for Help Center users who need quick definitions while learning how Edvello works. ## Core Edvello terms | Term | What it means | | ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Academy** | Your public-facing site — the org homepage, course landing pages, and Explore. Students land here before and after signing in. URL: `.edvello.com` or your custom domain. | | **LMS** | The authenticated learning area students enter after signing in. Contains Home, My Learning, Explore, Cohorts, and Settings. Reached via **Open Academy** or **Go to LMS** in the admin dashboard. | | **Organization** | Your admin workspace — holds courses, people, settings, and branding. Each organization maps to one academy. | | **Explore** | The course discovery tab inside the LMS. Shows published courses the student has not enrolled in yet. | | **Academy landing page** | The public homepage for your academy. Managed in the main sidebar under **Distribute**. | | **Course landing page** | The public page for a single course — description, price, and Enroll button. Editable from the course sidebar. | | **Student** | A user enrolled in one or more courses. Has access to the LMS but not the admin dashboard. | | **Audience** | Your org-wide student directory: everyone who belongs to your organization, whether they signed up, accepted a course invite, or were added directly. | | **Course** | The primary learning container — holds lessons, exercises, people, and settings. | | **Cohort** | A group of courses with a shared completion goal (complete all, pass rate, score). | | **Enrollment** | Joining a course. Can happen via public self-enrollment, invite link, admin assignment, or payment. | | **Invite** | An email sent to a specific person containing a unique enrollment link for a course or organization. | ## Related concepts | Term | What it means | | ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Admin Dashboard** | The control center where organization admins manage courses, students, settings, branding, roles, and operations. | | **Archived** | A student whose access is removed and whose record is kept. Reversible, and **frees a plan seat**. See [Audience](/reference/audience#membership-status). | | **Community** | An org-wide Q&A and discussion space for students and team members. | | **Deactivated** | A student whose access is removed and whose record is kept. Reversible, and **keeps using a plan seat**. | | **Course type** | The mode a course uses, such as self-paced, live class, compliance, or public. | | **Custom domain** | A branded domain for your academy site, such as `learn.example.com`. | | **Dormant** | A student who has not logged in or been active in a course for a chosen period. Found with the Audience usage filters. | | **Exercise** | A graded or interactive task inside a course, such as a quiz or assignment. | | **Invite link** | A direct URL used to send someone into a course or enrollment flow. | | **Lesson** | A unit of teaching within a course. It may include notes, media, slides, or videos. | | **Live class** | A scheduled class session with attendance and real-time participation. | | **Progression** | The rule set that controls how students move through a course and when content unlocks. | | **Publish state** | Whether a course or page is visible and available to students. | | **Role and permissions** | The access level a user has inside an organization. | | **Self-paced course** | A course students move through at their own pace instead of a live class structure. | | **SSO** | Single Sign-On. A login method that uses your organization’s identity provider. | | **Tag** | A label used to organize and filter courses and content. | | **Team member** | A person added to an organization with a role such as admin or instructor. | | **Welcome email** | The automated email students receive when they enroll or join a course. | ## Quick mental model If you need the simplest explanation: - An academy is the public learning site. - An organization is the admin workspace. - A course is the learning container. - A student is the learner. - An enrollment is the access event. - A cohort is the group or batch structure. This vocabulary is what makes the rest of the Help Center readable. ## Related Help pages - [Create Your Account](/get-started/signup) - [Create Your First Course](/get-started/create-first-course) - [How Course Enrollment Works](/manage-students/course-enrollment) - [Customize Your Organization](/organization-and-team/customize-organization) - [Create a Course Landing Page](/publish-and-brand/course-landingpage) - [Organization](/reference/organization) — full concept overview - [Course](/reference/course) — full concept overview