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Canonical names for every concept used across GenBodha. When the docs, the URL, the API, and the marketing copy say different things about the same idea, this page wins.
| Term | Definition | Alternates / notes |
|---|---|---|
| Discipline | A career-aligned learning track. Each discipline bundles 2–4 courses and maps to a hiring role family. | Alternates: track, career track Use "discipline" in user-facing copy. "Track" is reserved for URL/JSON internals (e.g., trackId). |
| Course | A subdivision of a discipline. Roughly 12 chapters; a 3–4 week sprint of focused study. | Alternates: anchor course, anchor sequence "Anchor" is a marker, not a noun phrase. Prefer "the first courses in a discipline" over "anchor sequence". |
| Chapter | An organizational grouping of several lessons (goals), plus one chapter-level audio overview. Learners navigate to lessons within a chapter, not to the chapter itself. | A chapter is a container, not a navigation destination — there is no standalone "chapter page" a learner lands on. |
| Lesson | A single goal — the first-class unit a learner navigates to (/lesson/[lessonId]). Each lesson bundles its own Concepts (reading), Knowledge Check (quiz), and Hands-on Labs. | Alternates: goal, artifact, part The sidebar labels it "goal"; the URL and code use "lesson"/lessonId — same unit. "Artifact" is deprecated. |
| Goal | The user-facing name for a lesson — what the sidebar tree shows and what a lesson is built around (its outcome). One goal == one lesson. | Alternates: lesson Prefer "lesson" in docs prose; "goal" matches the in-product sidebar label. |
| Reading material | A lesson's concept text, shown under the lesson's “Concepts” step. 15–30 minutes; concepts, examples, and code snippets. | Alternates: Concepts The in-product step is labeled "Concepts"; "reading material" is the content noun. |
| Audio overview | A 5–7 minute host-and-expert overview podcast at the CHAPTER level (a “Chapter N overview”) — not a per-lesson part. | Alternates: audio, chapter overview Chapter-scoped, unlike reading/quiz/lab which are per-lesson. "Audio" is fine after first mention. |
| Quiz | A lesson's multiple-choice knowledge check (the “Knowledge Check” step), drawn from the chapter's question bank. Unlimited retries, no points lost. | Alternates: Knowledge Check Checks understanding, not memory. The in-product step is labeled “Knowledge Check”. |
| Lab | A lesson's hands-on coding part (the “Hands-on Labs” step). A real VS Code workspace in the browser; implement TODOs and pass the provided tests. | Alternates: Hands-on Labs, workspace, VS Code workspace Use "lab" for the activity. Use "VS Code workspace" only when referring specifically to the IDE surface. |
| Guided lab | The standard, AI-assisted lab: you build a working app with Claude Code, hints, and a per-step answer reveal, then it's auto-graded on running code. | Alternates: lab (default) Contrast with the held-out Verified checkpoint, which is unaided. |
| Coverage | The share of a discipline's skill graph reached with passed, distinct graded labs. Credential tiers are earned by coverage — there are no exams or capstones. | Foundational ≥25% · Associate ~45% · Professional ~65% · Advanced 80%+. |
| Skill graph | The discipline's graph of skill groups. Each group becomes a signed node as you pass its labs; coverage of the graph drives the credential ladder. | |
| Credential | A signed proof-of-skill issued at a tier. W3C Verifiable Credential format. | Distinct from "tier" (the level) and "ladder" (the full set). All three terms appear together but mean different things. |
| Tier | The level of a coverage credential. Five tiers, ascending: Foundational, Associate, Professional, Advanced (Lab Proficiency), Distinguished. The 4th is "Advanced," not "Expert" — there is no proctored exam behind it. | The held-out per-skill "Verified" tier is separate (off-ladder). Separate from the coverage tiers, Frontier study units bank evidence toward the Expert tier of a discipline credential. The product surface uses tier names, not external L-bands. |
| Verified | A separate, held-out, per-skill credential tier — earned by passing an unaided, server-graded checkpoint, not by coverage. In beta; rolling out skill by skill. | Alternates: Verified (beta), Verified checkpoint Orthogonal to the coverage ladder — certifies one named skill, not a discipline. |
| Held-out | A problem the course didn't teach you, graded server-side with no AI pair-programmer — the basis of the Verified tier. | |
| Evidence record | The signed, append-only log of learning events that backs a credential. Every passed graded lab becomes an entry. | Alternates: evidence Use "evidence record" for the noun phrase. "Evidence" alone refers to the underlying signals. |
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