Spurred on from a comment in the BbWorld session "Taming the Internal Documentation Monster", I'd like to suggest the Bb community maintain a living document (think wiki) defining all the terms, abbreviations, and other lexicon used in our daily lives.

The fact of the matter is, when new folks become users of Blackboard, there is a lot of shared and assumed culture they're expected to assimilate, but nowhere to actually find it out other than via the "osmosis of conversation" that goes on at places like BbWorld.  Heck, here there is confusion, even over the actual names of Blackboard products.

For example, I was actually asked "is it 'Connect-ED' or 'Blackboard Connect'", and I actually had to ask the folks who work in that section of Blackboard to feel sure.  (In fact they say to refer to that product as "Blackboard Connect for Higher Ed" or "Blackboard Connect for K-12", etc.)  Anyone who was a Blackboard client back when they released version 5 can surely recall all the confusion of "Level 1" or "Level 3", right?

Eventually this could become a boon for every institution, having a documented lexicon that could be referred to...  (likely this sort of concept comes naturally to all you "Open Source" people, but that isn't my own background.)  I think it could be useful to be sure that you mean what I think you mean...  know what I mean?