Terms we use internally

Words below match behaviour in Skilladder itself. Labels on screen always win.

Term	Meaning in everyday language
Candidate / Talent	Someone taking assessments or using the candidate-facing experience. Sidebar is usually narrower (for example Dashboard and Skill Profile, not internal admin tooling).
Company administrator	Runs day-to-day work for their organisation inside Skilladder: assessments, templates, candidates, exports, and account settings.
Company staff	Extra teammates at a company whose fine-grained permissions can toggle specific abilities (creating assessments or templates, viewing taxonomy, exporting, etc.).
Platform administrator	Broad internal-style access across Skilladder operational tasks and configuration — including tools other roles never see.
Directory administrator (“Content admin”)	Focused on content: assessments library, templates, and skills taxonomy (skills, roles, job families). The home screen says Content admin and directs you away from treating it like everyday company dashboards.
Multi‑company administrator (MCA)	Works across many client organisations (“portfolio” context): Companies list, cross-company dashboards, deploying templates across companies — subject to Skilladder policies.
Assessment invite	A participant link that carries assessment context (/invites/...). Signing up vs signing in from that page behaves differently than the generic signup page — using the invite link matters.
Template vs live assessment	A template is a reusable blueprint. A live assessment is something you distribute, preview, attach sessions to, and report on — concrete instance in operation.
Question Bank	Shared catalogue of tagged assessment items (draft → review → live → retired) used to keep quality and reuse high. Operators (Platform + Directory) curate; many other roles browse or insert into assessments. See Question Bank.
Item Analysis (CTT)	Question Bank tab showing psychometric difficulty (p-value), discrimination (D-index), and automated verdicts from real candidate responses. See Item Analysis how-to.
p-value (difficulty index)	Proportion of candidates who answered correctly on an item—used to spot items that are too easy or too hard.
D-index (discrimination)	How well an item separates stronger vs weaker performers—low or negative values often trigger review.
Item verdict	Automated recommendation on Item Analysis (e.g. Bank It, Review, Remove) to prioritise content fixes.
Team invite	Adds someone to a company’s Skilladder roster via /team-invite/... — usually sent by the primary company admin.
Enterprise invite	Contract-style onboarding link /enterprise-invites/... for designated enterprise contacts — different templates and expiry posture than day-to-day team invites.
Staff viewer	A read-oriented company staff role for auditors or observers who need visibility into assessments and candidates without the ability to make changes. See Capabilities matrix.

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