What is a Shift?
Scope: Iscte-IUL Community
A shift is a set of classes of a certain type (laboratory, theoretical, theoretical-practical, etc.) that take place during the teaching period of a curricular unit.
Fénix+
What is a Competence Unit?
Scope: Iscte-IUL community
Name used when a teaching unit is created in the Fénix system, anchored in a scientific area and not yet part of a course syllabus.
When it is associated with a course syllabus, it is called a course unit.
What is a Curricular Unit?
Scope: Iscte-IUL Community
According to Decree-Law no. 74/2006, it is a teaching unit with its own training objectives that is subject to administrative registration and assessment, translated into a final grade.
What is an Execution Unit?
Scope: Iscte-IUL community
This refers to the execution of a course unit in a given academic period, when associated with a course syllabus.
For instance, the curricular unit “Introduction to Computer Science“, in the “1st semester“, of “1st curricular year” of the “Licenciatura em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática“, off the acdemic year 2012/2013.