Editorial/Style Guide/Glossary

Glossary

To ensure consistency, accuracy, and clarity, the following spelling and standardized terminology lists have been developed.

Standardized TRU-OL Spelling List

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This list conforms to The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, (2004), which we follow unless the a course project team decides on alternativestakes an alternate approach—, for example, to be consistent with the main textbook used for a course.

Standardized Terminology

• “Assignments” (for the link in the LMS, not Assignment File)
• click (not “click on” or “clink on”)
• Course Modules OR Course Units (but not both)
• Course Guide (not Course Overview OR Course Manual (but not both)
• Course Tools menu (not Course Menu area)
• “Discussions” (not forum, area, board, or conference)
• Distance Regional & Open Learning (DROL) Services (and no quotation marks, no hyphen after Regional)
• “Following a citation trail” guide (as the title of the guide itself, not the link)
• “Getting Started” (not “Getting Started with WebCT Guide”)
• “Help” link or “Help” (not HELP button)
• home page (two words, lowercase unless referring to course Home Page)
• How Do I...? (Do is first-initial cap; question mark goes after ellipses)
• IT Service Desk (not Help Desk, not IT service desk)
• learning management system (not WebCT)
• Library (when TRU Library) (not TRU-OL library)
• “Mail” tool (instead of “mail in WebCT”)
• Pack Slip (not Packing Grid)
• PIN (not PIN number)
• Student Handbook
• TRU Library (not the TRU Library)
• TRU-OL Social Sciences Guide
• TRU Open Learning
• Tutor Open Learning Faculty Member (not OLFM, Tutor, Facilitator, or Instructor)
• Tutor Marked Assignment form
• “View Attempt” not view results
• “Web Links”
• welcome letter (lowercase)
• World Wide Web, but web
• Other:
• “Getting Connected to WebCT” is outdated (get rid of WebCT references)
• There is no “WebCT Guide”
• Italics for course names (after acronym and number)
• Print info not needed, how to access course online info not needed
• Think in terms of students viewing the info on a monitor: for example, change language such as “turn now to your Assignments File”

Recommendations:

Include, on the “Web Links” page, a link to TRU-OL Examinations (so students can plan) Include, on the “Web Links” page, a link to Submission Guidelines, as it is referred to constantly in some courses Include, on the “Web Links” page, a link to Grading Systems and Procedures Fix language in grading scale: for example, Grading Systems and Policies is called Grading Systems and Procedures on the TRU web page