SivitasReference
Glossary
Terms and acronyms used across Sivitas and in this manual.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| AACSB | Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the international business-school accreditor whose standards the FS/FQ/IC, AoL and BSQ modules support |
| Academic year / time period | A year such as 2026/2027 and its semesters; most data in Sivitas is selected by time period |
| AoL | Assurance of Learning, the outcomes-assessment cycle |
| BAN-PT | Badan Akreditasi Nasional Perguruan Tinggi, Indonesia's National Accreditation Board for Higher Education |
| Batch / cohort | A group of students admitted together who follow the same class pattern; cohorts are protected from timetable clashes |
| BSQ | Business School Questionnaire, AACSB's annual data collection |
| CG / LO | Competency goal and learning objective, the outcome hierarchy in a curriculum |
| Course class | One section of a course offered in a term, with its lecturers, room, schedule and roster |
| Course offering | The set of course classes opened for a term |
| Coordinator | The lecturer responsible for a course across all its classes in a term |
| Credit / SKS | The credit unit of a course; SKS is the Indonesian term |
| Draft | A generated timetable that has not been published |
| DUPAK | Daftar Usul Penetapan Angka Kredit, the Indonesian lecturer credit-point dossier for promotion |
| FS / FQ / IC | Faculty Sufficiency, Faculty Qualification, Intellectual Contributions |
| Model specification | The compiled, versioned set of scheduling rules that must be approved before solving |
| Pin | A class fixed to a slot, room or lecturer that the solver must keep |
| Room pool | The rooms a study program's classes may use |
| SA / PA / SP / IP | Scholarly Academic, Practice Academic, Scholarly Practitioner, Instructional Practitioner: AACSB faculty qualification statuses |
| Scenario | A named group of drafts generated with different rules for comparison |
| SINTA / ABDC / Scopus | Journal classification sources: Indonesia's national index, the Australian Business Deans Council list, and Elsevier's index |
| Solver | The constraint-programming engine (CP-SAT) that produces timetables |
| Study program | A degree program at a level, for example the undergraduate management program |
| Term | Used interchangeably with semester or time period |
| TPAK | Tim Penilai Angka Kredit, the credit-point assessment team; also a role in Sivitas |