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FISMA: Federal Information Security Management Act
FSD*FO: Fill Out; a student task for filling out the Student Perception of Training (SPoT) survey.
FSD: Facilities Service Desk
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GUI: Graphical User Interface
HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
IAM: Identity and Access Management
IACUC: Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is also the name of a HCM: Human Capital Management; HCM consists of a core HR database, skills intelligence foundation, configuration tooling, process automation, workforce management, recruiting, talent, learning, benefits and more.
HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
IAM: Identity and Access Management
IACUC: Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is also the name of a Kuali module that researchers use to manage animal research protocols
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ITSM: IT Service management is a framework for planning, designing, delivering, operating and controlling IT servicesIT services.
JAWS: Job Access With Speech is a screenreader tool for people with visual challenges.
JDK: Java Development Kit
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LMS: Learning Management System, such as eCampus or SOLE.
LRS*: Leave Request System
LUN: Logical Unit Number (LUN) is a unique identifier for designating an individual or collection of physical or virtual machines.
LVM: Logical Volume Mirror (LVM) is a system for managing network file shares that lets you mirror content from old disks to new disks, then discard the old disk.
MAP*: Mountaineer Administrative Processes, the WVU-branded name for the financial and HR application Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS)
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MFA: Multi-factor authentication, a security measure that requires multiple methods of authentication
MI: Major Incident
MIX*: Mountaineer Information Xpress has been replaced by the WVU Portal, but student email (Gmail) is still referred to as MIX and has an @mix.wvu.edu naming convention
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NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST 800-171 is the security standard to which WVU seeks to align.NPAPI: Netscape
Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is an application programming interface (API) that allows plug-ins (more specifically, browser extensions) to be developed for web browsersNSC: National Student Clearinghouse is a service students use to confirm their enrollment at a college or university and get various discounts.
NSO: New Student Orientation
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OS: Operating System, such as macOS Monterey
OSP*: Office of Sponsored Programs
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OU: Organizational Unit, or a folder in directory
OUR*: Office of the University Registrar
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RM: Remote Manager, used to describe servers that allow for communication between Oracle Identity Manager and certain systems
ROADS*: Research Office Administrative Data System
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RTO: Recovery Time Objective is the maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs
SaaS: Software as a Service. SaaS allows users to connect to and use cloud-based apps over the Internet. Common examples are email, calendaring, and office tools (such as Microsoft Office 365).
SailPoint: WVU's identity management system, known as WVU Login
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SDLC: System Development Life Cycle
SEI: Student Evaluation of Instruction (aka Blue)Series 25*: Also known as 25Live, or the meeting room scheduling toolEvaluation of Instruction (aka Blue)
SFS: Student Financial Services
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SIEM: Security Incident and Event Monitoring
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol, used for handling telephone calls
SIS: Student Information System
SLA: Service Level Agreement
Initiation Protocol, used for handling telephone calls
SIS: Student Information System
SLA: Service Level Agreement
SLI: Scheduling Listing Index (SLI) Coordinators are contacts in the colleges responsible for helping with class scheduling, rooms, faculty role assignments, and other tasks.
SME: Subject Matter Expert, an individual with in-depth knowledge of a system, process, etc.
SOA: Services Oriented Architecture, or the architecture behind many systems (one version we use is Oracle SOA Suite)
SOLE*: Study Observe Learn Engage is the learning management system used at the Health Sciences Center
SOW: Statement of work
SPOTSPoT: Student Perception of Teaching (SPoT) is the new name the Provost’s office has given what was previously called SEI (Student Evaluation of Instruction). Both instruments are in a platform called Blue, which WVU also uses for employee performance evaluations. SEI and SPoT collect student feedback for instructors’ promotion and tenure files.
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SSM: Student Systems Management
SSO: Single Sign-On
STAR*: Students and Technology Achieving Results is the branded name for Banner, the student information system of record
STS: Secure Token Service is a component that supports authentication of services that use ADFS such as portal.wvu.edu, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft cloud platforms such as Azure Virtual Desktops
SVM: Subject View Management; an instructor task to manage the course (subject) for the Student Perception of Teaching (SPoT) survey.
SQL: Structured Query Language, or a special programming language for managing databases that allows a user to read and manipulate the data
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WRAP: West Virginia University Research Administration Portal (WRAP) is the WVU branded name of Huron Research Suite, a new platform being implemented as part of the WVU Modernization Program.
WVU+kc*: Research compliance, award administration and funding notification tool also called Kuali Coeus, KC or just Kuali
WVUCA*: WVU Certificate Authority, a central location to import and request certificates for your web server
WVCTSI: West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute
WVUID*: A unique nine digit identifier given to every employee and students
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