Glossary

A Kuali Student project program that will encourage commercial participation in implementation and support activities

The Kuali Student Community of Interest includes universities, colleges, international institutions, and commercial affiliates that will sustain future maintenance, enhancement, and development of the Kuali Student product.

Refers to the collaborative development approach of the project team building Kuali Student. Distinct from open-source development that solicits input from anyone, community-source development limits participation to a group of committed contributors. The Kuali Student team currently includes members and resources from Founder and Partner institutions. [More info on participants here]. Our Community of Interest program provides the opportunity for other interested institutions or commercial affiliates to participate in the development and/or sustainment of Kuali Student. The resulting product will be distributed as open source and available to all.

The term concierge traditionally refers to hotel staff available to meet all the needs of the customer. Using the concierge term for Kuali Student reflects the vision to provide functionality that goes beyond simple transactions to anticipating user needs. The Concierge service will support the student in their academic planning by anticipating the student needs, suggesting possible goals, allowing students to explore different goals, evaluating current progress and comparing proposed goals with existing and historical outcomes.

The use of Web services allows functional building blocks (services) to be accessed over standard Internet protocols that are independent from platforms and programming languages.

A non-profit organization responsible for sustaining and evolving a comprehensive suite of administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. Its members are colleges, universities, commercial firms and interested organizations that share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed systems for their software requirements.
The goal of Kuali is to bring the proven functionality of legacy applications to the ease and universality of online services. The Foundation employs staff to coordinate the efforts of partners and manage and protect the Foundation's intellectual property. The Kuali Foundation manages a growing portfolio of enterprise software applications for colleges and universities, such as Kuali Financial System (KFS), Kuali Research Administration (KRA), and Kuali Student (KS). Kuali Rice (KR) is the community for the integrated technical infrastructure components. The Foundation staff coordinates the activities of Foundation members for critical software development and coordination activities such as source code control, release engineering, packaging, documentation, project management, software testing and quality assurance, conference planning, and educating and assisting members of the Kuali Partners program. The Foundation continues to grow as new partners join one or more of the communities, and a key goal of the Foundation is to promote this growing membership.

The design of Kuali Student allows institutions to use all or some of the offered modules, depending on their needs. Changes to one module will not impact others

During development, Kuali Student will be built using open source products for the software stack, infrastructure, and many of the development tools. This does not preclude the use of commercial software for individual implementations. Once developed, there will be free access to the Kuali Student source code and the rights to use it. All software and materials will be available under the Education Community License issued through the Kuali Foundation, and can be adopted by colleges and universities around the world without licensing fees.

A software example of a standard for use in helping others implement their own versions of the standard.

A blueprint defining specific software services that will deliver the business processes and associated capabilities of the system. This approach underpins the development of a comprehensive services-based system where modules are loosely coupled for maximum flexibility to meet the broadest possible range of business practices and legislative environments

Widely accepted industry standards are used to guide the choice of components and the development of the system. This approach meets both the Kuali Student technical guiding principles and SOA architecture guidelines such as component abstraction, reusability, loose coupling, and autonomy.