Glossary

The education and Maestro-specific vocabulary a developer will meet across these topics, defined plainly and current as of October 2026. Where a term has a home topic, it links there. Terms from the retired Classic engine are listed separately at the end so older material can still be read.

Studio: designing and producing courses

Term	Meaning
Admin Center	Where IT Admins configure the platform, including choosing every AI model from a catalogue. No model is hard-coded.
CLO (Course Learning Outcome)	A statement of what a learner should be able to do by the end of a course. The Learning Outcome Review refines the official CLOs. →
Course Design	The first part of authoring: six ordered reviews, each approved by faculty, that turn a syllabus into an approved design. →
The six reviews	Course Intake · Learning Outcome Review · Assessment Design · Rubric and Weighting · Academic Integrity · Topic Architecture.
Academic course / training course	The two kinds of course: an academic course is syllabus-led and starts with Course Design; a training course is material-led.
Lead Designer	The single course engine. It divides the sources across subtopics, sets the lesson calendar, then plans, designs and produces each lesson ("Produce this lesson / subtopic / course"). →
Fill this gap	A Lead Designer action that lets AI write material where the sources are thin. What it writes is reviewed like everything else.
Production monitor	The Studio view that follows a course live as it is planned, designed and produced.
Grounding	Anchoring generated content to the approved course sources. →
Subtopic	A learning territory within a CLO; the Lead Designer plans lessons per subtopic. →
Lesson Page Standard	The one shape every lesson follows, designed phone-first: Open (a case picture and one choice) → parts, each with Watch (or Read instead) and Try it → Pause moments → the lesson's check → close (the learner's choice, a settle sentence, "your card") → carry forward.
Storyline	The thread that ties a lesson together from its opening case to its close.
Watch / Read instead	A part's narrated video, and the text alternative a learner can choose instead.
Try it	A short practice activity inside a part: immediate feedback, no grade, never how mastery is decided.
Pause	A brief moment in a lesson that asks the learner to stop and think before moving on.
The lesson's check	The diagnostic at the end of a lesson. It decides the learner's result and the help offered; it is not a grade. →
Variant	One of several approved versions of a check question, so a learner trying again meets a fresh one.
Remediation pieces	What each lesson carries for a learner who has not got there yet. Publishing refuses a lesson missing a required piece. →
Mix-up message	The short message shown when the check finds a specific misunderstanding, naming it plainly.
Second way in	The part the check tested, explained another way.
Firm-up	One example to firm up understanding that is nearly there.
Worked example	A step-by-step walkthrough for a learner who is not there yet or not sure.
Look again	A revision item that quotes the learner's own earlier answer and asks what they would change, and why.
Misconception registry	The shared, governed catalogue of named wrong ideas. The Lead Designer's "tempting errors" join it and are bound to the lesson whose check scores against them. →
Prompt registry	Where every AI prompt is versioned and approved before use.
Validation & sign	The course owner signs the final report. A course cannot be signed until its milestones exist and are approved.
Dean release	The only way a course reaches learners: the Dean (or IT Admin) releases the signed, frozen version, which becomes live and immutable in Journey. There is no direct publish.
Release board	Where signed courses wait for release and released versions are listed. Rollback is only to an earlier released version.
Published Course Package	The versioned, immutable artifact a release produces and Journey delivers. →

Roles

Term	Meaning
The roles	IT Admin · Academic Lead · Dean · SME · Registration · Student, organised by schools and programmes. →
SME (Subject-Matter Expert)	The faculty member who approves the design reviews and the course's content.
Course staff	Per course: the owner, co-authors and reviewers, working through anchored comments and notifications.
Registration desk	Where the Registration role follows learner progress, works cases and handles learner messages.

Journey: the learner's side

Term	Meaning
Adaptive Learning System	The learner-facing runtime, branded Maestro Journey. →
Your day / Today	The learner's starting page: where to begin today.
Course road (Your journey)	The course page's main tab: one lane per learning outcome, a stop per subtopic (solid, firming up, you're here, ahead), Revision markers and milestone diamonds, ending at "your credential". Minutes are shown on every lesson.
Learner results	After a lesson's check the learner sees one of five: Solid · Nearly there · Not yet · Not sure · A mix-up, with their own answer kept, then "Where to next · you choose".
Diagnostic band	The internal category behind a result: secure, fragile, knowledge gap, misconception. Band names are internal and never shown to learners.
Revision	One page per course plus a Revision hub. Each item says which lesson it came from.
Short on time?	A Revision option to work for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or through everything, most important first.
Before Milestone	The Revision items a learner must try once, honestly, before starting a milestone. Passing them is not required.
Welcome back	One short look-back item before the first lesson of a new day, when something is due. About a minute, never marked, and it never blocks the rest of the course.
Atlas	The learner-only AI companion. Code rules decide when it speaks; the model only words the line. It is quiet while a check is open and inside assessments. →
Learner model	The evolving per-learner record of results and mix-ups that the course road, Revision and Atlas read from. →
Trust layer	The learner model, misconception catalogue and next-step rules. →

Milestones and grading

Term	Meaning
Milestone	A graded assessment, weighted through Rubric and Weighting, shown as a diamond on the course road.
Milestone Guide	The only way into a milestone: its criteria with weights and the outcomes it covers. Its button follows progress — Start assessment, Continue your assessment, Continue your defense.
Choose your world	The learner picks a context for the milestone brief, then builds the work with autosave, version history and a daily work log.
Spoken defense	The live voice conversation (over WebRTC) that ends a milestone: the learner's locked work on one side, the questions on the other. The learner can cut in and the examiner stops. →
Your results / My results	The weighted report for one course, and the view across all courses. Work and grades are kept even if a course changes or is archived.

Integration

Term	Meaning
LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage	The standard by which Maestro embeds in and syncs with Moodle. Instructors deep-link whole courses. →
AGS (Assignment & Grade Services)	The LTI service Maestro uses to send grades to Moodle — one gradebook column per approved milestone, with its weight. →
NRPS (Names & Role Provisioning Services)	The LTI service that syncs the Moodle roster into Maestro.

Retired terms

These belonged to the Classic engine, which has been retired. They may appear in older material; none describes the current product.

Term	What replaced it
Classic	The earlier course engine. Replaced by the Lead Designer; its authoring has been removed and its courses are being retired.
Eleven node types · Mastery Node · node DNA	Lessons following the Lesson Page Standard.
Node Experience Blueprint · Content Specification · modality production	The Lead Designer's plan, design and produce steps.
Template tiers · template library	The Lesson Page Standard's fixed parts (Watch, Try it, Pause, the check).
Dialogic checks	The lesson's check and, for milestones, the spoken defense.
Bridge / crossing nodes	The course road and carry forward.
Readiness state (Not Ready … Advanced)	The five learner results.
Direct publish	Dean release.