Short definitions for terms used throughout InsightLens and its documentation.
Benchmark — An institutional reference score used to flag units whose overall experience sits below expectation. Used on the Performance Reports page.
Campus — The physical location where a unit is offered. Multi-campus units can be filtered by campus on the Units page.
Comment — A free-text response from a student, extracted from the comments section of a survey report and stored as an individual row so it can be analysed separately.
Course Improvement — A bundled view on the Unit Detail page that combines a trend chart, comment themes, and (optionally) AI-assisted suggestions into a short report.
Discipline — The broad subject area a unit belongs to, e.g. Information Systems, Marketing. Extracted from the survey report header.
Extractor — The component in the main Electron process that reads a PDF survey report and pulls out structured fields (unit code, scores, comments, etc.).
Offering — A single instance of a unit being delivered in a particular year, semester, and campus. One unit can have many offerings.
Overall Experience — The headline percentage InsightLens reports for a unit. It’s the same number the original PDF calls “overall experience” or equivalent.
Promotion Suggestion — A unit identified by InsightLens as having a strong enough track record to be useful evidence in an academic promotion case. See Promotion Suggestions.
Quick Insights — The two shortcut links at the top of the sidebar (Trending Up, Need Attention) that jump to filtered dashboard views.
Response Rate — The percentage of enrolled students who completed the survey. A low response rate makes the reported scores less reliable.
Sentiment — A label (positive / neutral / negative) assigned to each student comment by a local text-analysis step. No external service is called.
Star Performer — A unit with overall experience at or above 85 % in recent offerings. Highlighted on the Dashboard and full list on the Performance Reports page.
Surveys Database — The single SQLite file (surveys.db) InsightLens uses to store everything. Backing up the file backs up all your data.
Unit — A single course or subject (e.g. ISYS2001). The entity at the centre of most InsightLens views.