Glossary of terms

Product owners and your tools will use a few words that come from content-sdk. This page collects them, and each step explains them where they first come up.

Come back here whenever a word is unfamiliar.

Try it: find the word for showing English where Spanish is missing, then the chapter that explains it.

Terms you'll meet, from A to Z

Term	What it means	Explained in
Administrator	A person whose role lets them do anything, including remove old entries from the audit log. This site never has that role	Keeping track of changes
Audit log	A list content-sdk keeps, with one entry for every change: who made it, on whose behalf, and what it reached. An administrator can read it, and so can anyone given a role that reads it	Keeping track of changes
Changes not published	A published lesson that has been saved again since, so readers still see the earlier version	Publishing
content-sdk	The software your content tools are built on. It stores your curricula and keeps track of every change	Getting started
Edition	A new copy of a curriculum, such as a regional edition of Language Arts, started from what the original has published and changed on its own after that	Making a new edition
Fallback	Showing English where Spanish is missing, when the view asks for it	When a Spanish version is missing
Merge	Moving every tag from one term to another, in every lesson, then deleting the first term. Its labels become synonyms of the other	Tagging lessons
On behalf of	A change one person makes for another, such as Ben publishing Lucía's Spanish version. Both names are kept	Working with others
Outline	A curriculum's tree of units and resources, from the level down to each lesson's resources	Building an outline
Point	A row in the outline: a unit such as Topic A, or a resource's row	Building an outline
Published version	What readers see	Publishing
Resource's row	A point that places a resource, such as Lesson 1 Teach Book, in the outline	Building an outline
Retired term	A term lessons keep but no one can add again, usually with another term named to use instead	Tagging lessons
Role	What a person's account lets them do, such as save, publish, or delete. A person can hold several	Getting started
Saved version	One save of a lesson in one language, kept with its date and who saved it	Saving
Tag	A term attached to a lesson, such as Grade 3 or Unit fractions. Each language's version has its own	Tagging lessons
Term	One entry in a vocabulary, with a label in each language. A change to it reaches every lesson at once	Tagging lessons
Vocabulary	A managed list of terms lessons are tagged from, such as Grades or Subjects. A maintainer looks after its terms	Tagging lessons
Working version	What you and other editors see: the latest save, published or not	Publishing

19 terms, from A to Z.

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Most of these words describe something you already do. They give it the name your tools and product owners use.