Getting Started

Glossary

Quick reference for the vocabulary used across Meletema and these docs.

Decks and cards

Deck — A named set of flashcards on one topic. Belongs to the instructor who composed it, inside an organization.
Shared deck — A deck its owner has shared with the organization. Everyone in the org can view and use it from the Organization tab, but only the owner, collaborators, and org admins can edit it.
Collaborator — An org member the deck's owner has granted co-editing rights. Collaborators can edit cards and settings but can't delete the deck or manage sharing.
Card — A prompt, answer, and optional explanation.
Prompt — The question or term shown to the student.
Answer — The correct response.
Explanation — Extra context shown after the student answers. Collapsed by default until you've used it.
Folder — A personal container for organizing your own decks. Only you see your folders; colleagues browsing a shared deck see its folder name as a label.
Tag — A free-form label for cross-cutting categorization (e.g. bio-mid-term).

Attempt — One play-through of a deck by one student. Has a score (0–100) and a started_at / completed_at timestamp.
Activity type — A way to present a card: multiple choice, self-assess, matching. Configurable per deck.
Card order — Whether cards appear in the order you defined or randomized for each play.
Practice link — A public link to a deck that anyone can play without signing in, on its own or embedded in a course page. Nothing about students is saved and no grades are sent. See Sharing a practice link.

Avg attempt score — Average of Attempt.score across completed plays. Immediate, easy to interpret.
Mastery score — A spaced-repetition signal stored per (card, student). Grows slowly across multiple correct answers.
Mastery progress — Average mastery score across all the cards in your decks. The dashboard's long-term retention number.
Difficulty — On the per-deck report, the percent of student responses on a card that were wrong. Sorted descending to surface tough cards.

LTI — Learning Tools Interoperability. The standard your LMS uses to launch external apps like Meletema.
LTI 1.1 / LTI 1.3 — Two protocol versions. 1.3 is modern and uses OAuth 2.0 / JWT; 1.1 is legacy and uses OAuth 1.0a + a consumer key/secret pair.
Deep linking — An LMS feature that lets you pick a specific deck while creating an LMS assignment.
Grade passback — Reporting a student's final score back to the LMS gradebook. AGS for 1.3, Basic Outcomes for 1.1.
Section — A class in your LMS that has been linked to a specific deck. Auto-created on first launch.
Dynamic registration — A one-click LTI 1.3 setup flow that pastes a URL into your LMS and the rest happens automatically.

Organization — Your team in Meletema. Owns the decks, members, sections, and billing. Created and named when you sign up; you're its first admin.
Member roles — admin (billing + members + LMS) and instructor (decks + sections).
Plan — A subscription tier with three feature flags: LTI 1.1, LTI 1.3, and grade passback.
Trial — A free period at the start of a paid plan. Length is configured per plan, and each organization gets one. A card is required to start, but you're not charged until the trial ends.
Free plan — Where an organization lands if its subscription is canceled or lapses. Decks, members, and practice links keep working; LMS features switch off until you subscribe again.