A-basis
Salary rate computed on a twelve-month, annual basis.
Academic Staff
Academic Staff: a professional and administrative employee other than faculty with duties and types of appointments that are primarily associated with higher education institutions or their administration. Each academic staff has a principal role related to research, teaching, outreach, student services, information technology, libraries, communications, clinical/health services, or other responsibilities.
Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Professional and administrative personnel with 1) Duties that are exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); and 2) Perform work that is primarily associated with higher education institutions or their administration.
Accessible Document
A digital file designed, like a KB document, so people with visual, physical, cognitive, or hearing impairments can read and navigate it easily using assistive technology like screen readers.
Account Consolidation
The process of combining multiple accounts into a single account during the transition to Office 365.
Accounting and Financial Team
Accrued Leave
The amount of sick leave, vacation, vacation carryover, personal holiday, legal holiday and banked leave an employee has earned based on the number of hours in pay status.
Acknowledge Reportable Event
This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to acknowledge receipt of a reportable event that does not require further IRB review. Upon acknowledgement, the study will return to the approved state.
Activity
An activity is an action that you can take for a submission. For example, if a study team wants to respond to pre-review issues, they would use the Send Issues Response activity. Activities are always listed on the left of each study workspace. The list of activities changes based on a user's role in ARROW and what state a submission is in.
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act: http://www.ada.gov/
ADA Compliance
Ensuring that the electronic tools like the KB editor, it's documents, help articles, live group space sites, and learning materials to meet federal accessibility standards so that individuals with disabilities can use them equally and independently.
ADF
Automatic Document Feeder. In a scanner device, an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into a scanner.
Absolutely Definitely Fudged. In an Ice Cream Shop you might desire the most popular flavor -- Absolutely Definitely Fudged (ADF) -- and if they are out, that will be the condition your condition is in.
Admin (Administrator)
A KB user with elevated permissions to manage users, groups, live site settings, workflows, and publishing privileges.
Administrative Contact
An organization's administrative point of contact, responsible for assigning staff time to the Office 365 transition. Communicates with the Office 365 Team and their organization's leadership.
Administrative Limited Appointment
A leadership role such as dean or associate dean that falls into the employee category of Limited. A Limited appointee serves at the discretion of the appointing authority.
AEN Number
Against the grain
at right angles to the direction of the paper grain; opposite of paper grain direction
Alt Text
A field in the KB Admin tools edit image modal where authors can add a short written description embedded in the code of an image or graphic to explain what the visual item shows and why it matters.
Alternate Address
In Microsoft 365, an alternate/alias address is any email address associated with a NetID@wisc.edu, shared mailbox or service account (something@domain.wisc.edu), or Microsoft Group account (something@office365.wisc.edu). An account may have any number of email addresses associated with it. A message destined to any of the alternate addresses will be delivered to the main mailbox on the account.
Analytics
The measurement and tracking of how KB consumers and search engines interact with your help documentation.
Anchor tag
A bookmark tool used as a target in a KB document to let readers jump directly to a specific section or heading within a long document without needing to scroll.
Ancillary Committee (ANC)
Ancillary Committees (ANC) are committees that have oversight for specific areas of a submission, such as investigational drugs, conflict of interest, or Veterans Affairs (VA) issues. These committees do not issue approval for the study a whole; only for their areas of oversight.
The IRB will forward submissions to the appropriate ancillary committee if review is needed and has not yet been provided. Ancillary committees may request documentation from the study team that is additional to the IRB application completed in ARROW.
Annotations
In Perceptive Content imaging software, annotations are used to mark up and add comments to a document without affecting the original image. Annotations enable you to select, add notes to, or even block out parts of a document. The file types that support annotations are: TIFF (.tif), JPEG (.jpg), Bitmap (.bmp), GIF (.gif), and PNG (.png).
API (Application Programming Interface)
A bridge that allows other software programs to automatically search, read, write, or sync KB articles and data without using the human website interface.
Applicant
Job seeker who has applied for the vacancy.
Application Plan
An Application Plan defines index keys of a document and connects Perceptive Content to other applications to link documents with the correct index key values. It is created in the Perceptive Content Management Console and set in a Capture Profile.
Appointment
The action of an appointing authority to place a person in a position within the agency in accordance with the law and the Rules of the Administrator, Division of Merit Recruitment and Selection (DMRS). An appointment is effective when the employee reports for work or is in paid leave status on the agreed starting date and time.
Approved
This is a state in ARROW. Studies in the Approved state have been reviewed and fully approved by the IRB and relevant ancillary committees, if any.
Approved with Administrative Hold
This is a state in ARROW. Studies in the Approved with Administrative Hold state have been reviewed and approved by the IRB; however, additional administrative documentation is required before final approval is granted (e.g. submission of a Certificate of Confidentiality).
Archived
This is a state in ARROW. Once an application is in the archived state, no other activities with that application are possible, other
than copy/paste of text. Studies in the archived state can not be re-opened.
Archived
A KB article that is removed from public search results and active viewing, but saved in a back-end storage list for reference or audits.
ASPP
Academic Staff Policies and Procedures. For more information, visit the Secretary of Academic Staff website: http://acstaff.wisc.edu/resources/policies-and-procedures
ASSA
Assigned to IRB Meeting
This is a state in ARROW. Studies in this state have been assigned to an upcoming meeting by either the IRB staff reviewer or the IRB submission manager. In this state, the IRB staff reviewer can record the IRB meeting decision and draft meeting minutes.
Asynchronous
Attachment search
Lets you find text and keywords inside supported file attachments like PDFs and audio transcripts linked to KB documents, in addition to searching the main article text.
Audience
The specific group of people intended to read, use, and benefit from KB articles.
Authentication
The process of verifying a user's identity before granting access to internal, restricted, or customer-facing Knowledgebase information.
Author
A KB user or role with permissions to create, edit, and publish documentation such as articles, guides, and FAQs.
Authorization
The process of verifying a user's identity before granting access to internal, restricted, or customer-facing information. Authentication verifies who a user is (such as logging in with a password or email), authorization decides what files, categories, or administrative settings they can access.
Autodiscover
Exchange Autodiscover is a web service that helps Microsoft Exchange administrators configure user profile settings for clients running Outlook Enterprise/Subscription/2019/2016. It allows users to easily configure their email client knowing only their email address and password.
Automatic Reply
Also known as a vacation message or an out of office message. Automatic reply is a rule that can be set in your Office 365 account that will automatically reply to incoming emails with a preset response for a preset amount of time.
Awaiting Correspondence
This is a state in ARROW. Studies in this state have undergone IRB review, a meeting decision has been recorded and the IRB staff can draft correspondence for the study team.
Awaiting Scientific Review
This is a state in ARROW. Studies in this state have been triaged by the IRB and determined to require scientific review. In this state, the Scientific Review Committee (e.g. CTRC PIR, SRC, PRMC) will review the study and indicate the outcome of their review.