| Name |
Short Name |
Description |
| catalogue |
catalogue |
A browsable and searchable catalogue of all available rigs and lessons. |
| consumer |
consumer |
A consumer of remote labs and its associated resources. |
| developer |
developer |
A developer of rigs and/or remote lab resources. |
| experiment activity |
activity |
A single instance of a distinct and discrete learning activity carried out by one or more students. Note that this may be carried out over several sessions. |
| experiment activity design |
activity design |
The design which specifies the intended form that a given activity should take. All activities that meet this design should have the same learning objectives and are carried out on the same rig type with a given configuration. |
| experiment sequence |
sequence |
A sequence of experiment/lab-based learning activities that together are intended to result in a coherent set of learning outcomes. |
| experiment session |
session |
A single time-contiguous period during which one or more students carry out all or part of a laboratory activity. |
| laboratory device |
device |
A single piece of equipment which forms part of a rig
laboratory rig collection collection The collection of homogeneous rigs, all of the same rig type, which are co-located and managed together. |
| laboratory rig collection |
collection |
The collection of homogeneous rigs, all of the same rig type, which are co-located and managed together. |
| laboratory rig configuration |
rig config |
The configuration required of a rig for carrying out a particular activity design. |
| laboratory rig instance |
rig |
A single instance of a physical system made from various devices (including associated software and hardware) that can be used by one or more students in carrying out a distinct and discrete learning activity. |
| laboratory rig pool |
pool |
The collection of homogeneous rigs, all of the same rig type, which may be distributed across multiple physical locations and managed by different organisations, but which can be treated as a single logical collection for access purposes. |
| laboratory rig type |
rig type |
The class to which a rig belongs, and within which any rig can be used interchangeably. |
| physical hardware laboratory |
remote lab |
Multiple collections of heterogeneous rigs, possibly belonging to multiple rig types, which are co-located and managed together. |
| provider |
provider |
A provider of remote labs and its associated resources. |
| rig client |
rig client |
Software abstraction of the rig that accepts abstract commands like 'allocate' & 'deallocate' and performs these in a rig specific way. |
| rig controller |
rig controller |
A device that controls or runs the rig. |
| rig monitor |
rig monitor |
Monitors the rig and provides rig status (i.e rig good, rig bad, rig fault) back to the system. Monitors the rig and the rig controller. |
