Glossary
Wise Booking System glossary
The words WBS and its screens use, in one line each.
Terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Administrator | A person with the Administrator tick: approves bookings and maintains rooms, people and equipment. |
| Approval | The optional step in which the booking office confirms or refuses a booking. |
| Booking | Rooms (and people) held for a time on one or more dates. The screens sometimes say reservation. |
| Booking office | The administrators: they approve bookings and keep the system. |
| Booking type | The institution's kind of booking, with a colour and a public mark. |
| Check availability | The test of every date of a booking before it is saved. |
| Attendance session | One occasion on which attendance is taken – a course meeting, a seminar, a workshop – with its own rotating code and its own list. |
| Equipment | What a room has – projector, microphones – used to describe and filter rooms. |
| People | The persons who book or are booked. On a booking they are its participants. |
| Room overview | One day, every room, everything booked in each. |
| School code | The short name of the institution's site, used in the address and in the mobile apps. |
| Settings administrator | A person on the list Who may edit these settings. |
| Signage display | A web page for a television, showing the day's bookings. |
| Subscription | A calendar address that updates itself. |
| Tenant | The institution's Microsoft 365 organisation. |
| Waiting | The state of a booking that awaits approval. |
See WBS with your own rooms
Book an online presentation. We set up your rooms and your booking rules, and a new institution is usually live within a few days.