Common ELMS Terms
ELMS E-Learning Management System (ELMS) is the name of the Drupal based distribution that is this system.  Development under the ELMS brand originally started in 2007 and continues today in a much more sophisticated form.  ELMS is much more then a content platform, it is a platform for developing systems as part of the "Suite of Tools" instructional design philosophy for rethinking the traditional LMS.
Drupal A popular Content Management System (CMS) for the creation and management of information.  ELMS is built on top of the powerful Drupal framework.
Distribution A bundling of Drupal modules and configuration settings to allow someone to install all at once.  If you think of Drupal as a framework for developers, Distributions are off the shelf solutions / products for vendors and end-users.
Course Space A Course Space is for the reservation of name space in the system.  It is equivalent to a college publishing the fact that a course exists in their "Blue book" and by itself serves no other function.  It helps organize Versions.
Course Version A Course Version is the actual running of a course.  It is the organizing unit which allows you to implement and offer a course.  Versions can be in different states of development such as a sandbox, offered to students, and archived.  There are also specialized versions of courses like Master versions used to mark the original copy and promotional versions for showcasing content publicly for sample lessons / units.
Region The four areas of the user interface in ELMS are commonly referred to as regions.  This is to simplify communication between developers and instructional designers as the term makes sense in both contexts.  There are four major regions in elms, all corresponding to different sides of the screen.
Outline Designer Content outline editing tool used for the rapid creation and modification of content outlines.  This is the tool that most people are asking for when they say they "want elms".  Also known as Content Outline.
ELIMedia System Utilized by the e-Learning Institute for the storage and integration of copyright / accessible learning assets.  Also known as ELMS: Media.
Text Editor When editing a piece of content, the interface that is presented with buttons.
Format dropdown Format dropdown in the text editor allows you to add / remove HTML structures from the content you are working with.  This is things like

and

tags.

Styles Dropdown Styles dropdown in the text editor allows you to add / remove class based styling from structures.  This would be a class to make the text look red, bold or italicized text, or alignment on the page.
Templates Reusable page components that have been created with stylistic and accessibility design considerations.  These are good starting points for the creation of any page and more can be added with ease.
WYSIWYG What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) is often the technical acronym used when talking about Text Editors.
ID Best Practices A Feature that helps in the implementation of standardized Instructional Design best practices.
Instructional Design Templates Structures that make up the initial best practices of a course.  These can be created by developers so that instructional designers and instructors can select how many lessons they want and what structure to use as a template.  The ID Template then creates the outline and populates it with sample content (optional). This is important for rapid prototyping of courses.
Course Content A Feature that helps bundle together everything related to the creation and management of the course content outline.  This was the original reason for creation of the ELMS platform.
Feature Features can be found in the instructional design toolkit on the left-hand region.  Features help to provide standardization across courses in ELMS while still enabling new and innovative functionality to be created.  Common Features enabled by default include ID Best Practices and Course Content.
Studio Studio is a Feature of ELMS that's focused on student to instructor collaboration.