The LMS Guidebook: Learning Management Systems Demystified

APPENDIX B

Glossary of IT Technical Jargon

Accessibility	The features that allow the LMS to operate in conjunction with assistive devices such as screen readers, voice control, and switch controls so that they can be used by people with visual, physical, auditory, and cognitive challenges.
AD or ADFS	Active Directory or Active Directory Federation Services. Microsoft’s single sign-on solution. (See Single Sign-On.)
API	Application programming interface. A library of programming functions allowing software developers to access LMS content and features to integrate it with other systems and applications or automate manual tasks and processes.
Backups	A scheduled set of processes that pull data from the LMS servers and store them for retrieval ...