25 EdTech terms defined

Adaptive learning

System adjusting difficulty и content based на student performance. SLAtech Edu's quiz engine generates difficulty-adjusted questions based на the student's prior performance.

Attendance

Student participation tracking. SLAtech Edu can read attendance from the LMS и surface attendance status к students.

COPPA

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (US, 1998). Restricts collection of personal information from children under 13 without parental consent. SLAtech Edu products are not directed к children under 13 без upstream school-side consent workflow.

Cohort

Group of students progressing together through а course или programme. SLAtech Edu's bot can route cohort-specific announcements и Q&A.

Course-prerequisite reasoning

Multi-hop reasoning chain across course prerequisites (e.g. CS-201 requires CS-101 which requires Math-100). SLAtech Edu's bot walks the prereq graph to recommend course sequences; generic chatbots dump the full catalog without ordering.

Curriculum / syllabus

Structured plan of course content, learning objectives, schedule. SLAtech Edu's bot surfaces syllabus answers к student questions instantly — "When's the midterm", "What's the textbook".

Deadline / due date

Submission deadline для assignments. SLAtech Edu's bot surfaces upcoming deadlines в reminders и handles deadline-related student queries ("When is my essay due".

Enrollment deadline cliff

Last day к register for а term, drop courses без financial penalty, или secure а scholarship slot. SLAtech Edu quotes program-specific deadlines + early-bird discount cutoffs + late-fee schedules from authoritative source. Generic chatbots quote one generic deadline.

FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)

US application для federal student financial aid. Structured intake captures household income, dependency status, family size. SLAtech Edu's financial-aid intake completes а structured FAFSA-eligibility checklist; generic chatbots collect contact-info only.

FERPA

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (US, 1974). Restricts disclosure of student education records. SLAtech Edu contracts include FERPA school-official designation language где applicable; PII redacted at ingest.

FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)

US law protecting student-education records. Restricts disclosure of GPA, financial-aid status, или behavioural records без identity-verification. SLAtech Edu ships а FERPA-aware identity-verification step before disclosing protected records; generic chatbots over-disclose на impersonation attempts.

Gradebook

Aggregate student grade record. SLAtech Edu's bot can surface а student's current grade calculation на demand — "What grade am I getting в biology" — после FERPA-conformant authentication.

LMS (Learning Management System)

Software hosting course content, assessments и student progress: Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, Google Classroom, Schoology. SLAtech Edu integrates с major LMSs via LTI 1.3 to surface course-specific context.

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability)

IMS standard for embedding third-party tools в an LMS. SLAtech Edu's bot is LTI 1.3-compliant — can be deployed inside Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard course pages с single-sign-on.

MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

Free или low-cost online course (Coursera, edX, Khan Academy). SLAtech Edu can power MOOC student Q&A at scale — single bot serving thousands of concurrent learners.

Microlearning

Bite-size educational content (2-5 minutes per lesson). SLAtech Edu's bot delivers microlearning prompts via Telegram / WhatsApp Business — daily quiz, weekly recap.

Office hours

Instructor-held time slots для student questions. SLAtech Edu's bot bridges asynchronous Q&A between office hours и surfaces office-hour booking to students.

Plagiarism detection

Software identifying copied content в student submissions (Turnitin, Copyleaks). SLAtech Edu's bot can surface plagiarism-policy guidance к students preparing submissions.

Quiz / assessment

Evaluation of student knowledge. SLAtech Edu's bot can generate randomised practice quizzes from ingested course content — drives both Q&A и self-test loop.

Rubric

Structured grading criteria. SLAtech Edu's bot can surface а rubric к students before submission и flag essay drafts against the rubric prior к instructor review.

SIS (Student Information System)

System of record для student demographics, enrolment, grades, transcripts. SLAtech Edu can pull SIS data к contextualise bot answers ("What's my next assignment") после appropriate FERPA designation.

SIS (Student Information System)

University's operational system of record для enrollment, grades, financial aid, registrar functions. Examples: Banner (Ellucian), Workday Student, PeopleSoft. SLAtech Edu integrates с SIS APIs к quote enrollment deadlines + course schedules; generic chatbots dump the full catalog.

Synchronous vs asynchronous learning

Synchronous = live (lecture, video call, study group). Asynchronous = on-demand (recorded video, reading, quizzes). SLAtech Edu's bot is asynchronous-native, complementing synchronous via reminder и Q&A loop.

Tutor / mentor

Human instructor providing personalised guidance. SLAtech Edu's bot does NOT replace tutors — handles routine Q&A so tutors focus on substantive learning conversations.

xAPI / Tin Can

Activity-tracking specification recording learning events ("started course", "completed quiz"). SLAtech Edu emits xAPI statements к LRSs (Learning Record Stores) для cross-platform analytics.