The following Terms and Phrases should be considered as having the associated meanings when used in the context of this site. Note that you can retrieve any of these definitions anywhere on the site where you see a small gray question mark next to the Term by clicking on it.
Administrator
A User charged with the overall responsibility for the general operation of the WCISOA site and management of Site usage.
Assessor
A User that has been formally licensed or otherwise approved by the Board to perform Referee Assessments.
Assignment
As a noun, it identifies the relationship between a specific MatchPosition and a Referee. As a verb, it refers to the steps and actions necessary to create the relationship between a specific MatchPosition and a Referee.
Assignor
A User that has the responsibility to coordinate and facilitate the assignment of Referees to Matches
Audit
A database table containing a single entry for each significant action that takes place on the site. Also used as a verb to indicate that a particular action will be recorded for future review and diagnosis
Browser
A program operating in a Visitor's system somewhere on the Internet that has asked for a Page from a Server.
Chapter
Describes a collection of Referees that work as a group to provide coverage to Matches in a specific geographic area. A single Chapter commonly provides Referees to Matches sanctioned by one or more Authorities. WCISOA is a Chapter.
Coach
An individual that participates in a Match in a non-Player capacity that is responsible for the Team's operation during the Match
Criteria
A specific combination of values associated with data elements that permits you to select a subset of entries that meet your needs.
Directory
An online, searchable list of the Site Users or participants that make up the WCISOA constituents
Evaluation
A mechanism intended to permit Team Representatives to provide feedback to WCISOA about the performance of the Referees assigned to a Match
Field
A physical area where a scheduled Match will occur between two Teams.
Gender
A reference to the sex of the participants in a Match (e.g. Male, M, Female, W, etc.). [p]This can also be a reference to the Gender of a single User (when used in the context of the User's Profile)
Level
An administrative-based grouping of Schools, typically based upon size of institution
Match
A scheduled competition between two Teams authorized by a Conference and officiated by a Referee
Match Report
The act of reporting completion of an Assignment by a Referee. The Match Report is the basis for collecting the results of a Match and is the basis for payment processing.
Notice
An information item that is intended for you specifically and normally pertains to your involvement with WCISOA. As an example, the system automatically generates a Notice whenever a Match that you are assigned to has it's Date, Time, or assigned Field changed after you have accepted an Assignment
Officer
A User that has been selected to serve on the WCISOA Board of Directors and represent the Chapter membership.
Page
Represents the resulting HTML from a PHP Script's execution AND all the accompanying elements (.GIF, .JPG, .CSS, etc. files). Each Page from each the Site has a URL, and an identifying Name.
Period
Used to describe a grouping of Matches and/or Accounting entries into a logical set of elements that constitutes a billing/payment date range for Schools/Referees
Player
An individual that participates with a Team as an active participant in a sanctioned Match
Poll
A named series of questions soliciting feedback from one or more Members about a specific topic or issue
PollResult
An individual response filed by a WCISOA Member to a Poll
Position
A reference to the general responsibilities a Referee accepts when receiving an Assignment. Typically, a Match might require the Positions named Ref (Center Official), AR1, AR2, and possibly a 4th (4th Official), completely dependent upon what the School has requested.
Profile
A reference to the set of data elements and information associated with a single User of the WCISOA Site. This is where each User stores individualized information and indicates his/her preference for information publication in the Directory.
Referee
Describes a User of the WCISOA Site that is licensed to officiate at a sanctioned Match. USSF, NISOA, NFHS, etc. are organizations that license Referees
RidgeStar
The pseudonym used for the company responsible for designing, implementing, and providing professional operations support for a Referee Management Site.
RidgeStar is an operational Division of North Ridge Software, Inc., a privately held Washington State corporation (serving it's customers since 1982).
School
An institution of higher learning that contracts with WCISOA to provide licensed Referees to officiate at their scheduled soccer Matches
Segment
A named portion of the Site that collects functions and pages related to a specific Role in a common portion of the site.
Server
Identifies a physical RidgeStar system operating a copy of the Apache HTTP Daemon that responds to Internet based requests for service.
Session
Defined by PHP. Essentially, uniquely identifies a single Browser's interaction with a single PHP based Site.
Site
The specific combination of files containing script (PHP) and graphics (JPG, GIF) available through the HTTP protocol that are combined to meet the WCISOA requirements
SiteManager
The identified User that acts as the Webmaster for the wcisoa.org and as the primary Point of Contact with RidgeStar with respect to WCISOA operations.
SiteName
The unique combination of personal data elements that uniquely identifies a single User to the Site. For wcisoa.org, this is your unique numeric ID
Surface
Is a term used to describe the type of covering that is on the Field. "Grass", "Dirt" and "Sand" should be obvious. "Turf" represents a smooth artificial surface, whereas "RealTurf" represents the artificial material that simulates grass (incuding the blades of grass) that has become more popular recently.
System
Used to describe the basic operating system environment of a Visitor, Browser, or Server.
Team
A collection of Players that compete together in a League against other Teams
Term
A word or series of words that represents a specific element, activity, role, action, etc. when used in the context of wcisoa.org.
Text Format
You can control how the information you enter is displayed by using one or more of the following elements surrounded by brackets [ or ] within the text string you enter:See Reference: Tools-Text Format for more information.
Time
Typically used to indicate a specific Time of Day (local time zone). When used in a Criteria box, "Morning" means between 12:01am and 11:59am, "Midday" means 10:00am to 4:00pm, "Afternoon" means 12:00pm to 5:00pm, and "Evening" means 5:01pm to 11:59pm
User
A term used to describe an individual person that is authorized to logon to WCISOA and interact with the system in one or more roles (as a Referee, Conference Officer, School, Team representative, etc.).
Visitor
A general term used to describe a single Internet user somewhere using a program (usually a Browser) to access a Site page on a RidgeStar server.
WCISOA
The pseudonym used on wcisoa.org to identify the West Coast Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association, a California Not-for-Profit Corporation (WCISOA)
wcisoa.org
The World Wide Web domain name for the West Coast Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association
West Coast Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association
the Northern California Chapter of the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association
by clicking on it.