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Glossary: Nebula Rosterr terms in plain words

Short definitions of the words used throughout Rosterr: workspace, role, notice, quota, period, logbook, container and more.

Written by Liam Radford

Acknowledgement: a record that someone read and agreed to a policy, and when.

Activity: time a person spends in your Roblox game, measured by the activity loader or the API.

Activity period: the stretch of time over which activity and quotas are counted, ended by a reset.

Admin: a workspace member who can do everything. Also the name of the permission that grants it.

Alliance: a partner Roblox group your group works with, with representatives, notes and visits.

API key: a secret that lets your game call the Rosterr public API. It starts with rosterr_.

Audit log: the record of who changed what in a workspace, kept for 30 days.

Bell: the notification menu inside Rosterr.

Bloxlink: a service linking Roblox and Discord accounts, used for some Discord messages.

Claim: to take a role (slot) in a session.

Container: a folder of guides in Docs.

Department: a group of people by what they do (for example Cabin Crew), separate from roles.

Directory: the staff list, organised by department.

Early access: the stage of Rosterr where groups are let in from the waitlist.

Guide (doc): a document staff may read in Docs. Compare with a policy.

Host: the person running a session, who holds a primary host role.

Idle time: time a player was away from the keyboard in your game.

Leave (notice): time off. Called an inactivity notice or notice in Rosterr.

Loader: the Roblox package your admin adds to your game so activity is tracked.

Logbook (userbook): a member's record of notes, warnings, promotions, demotions and terminations.

Mass action: applying one action to many selected people on the Staff page.

Moderation case: a record about a player, with the reason, evidence and action decided.

Notice: see leave.

Open Cloud key: a Roblox API key that lets Rosterr read (and optionally rank in) your group.

Period: see activity period.

Permission: one specific thing someone may do. Roles are bundles of permissions.

Ping: a push notification on your phone, computer or browser.

Policy: a document staff must read and agree to.

Quota: a target staff must meet each activity period.

Rank: a person's role number in the Roblox group.

Role: a Rosterr bundle of permissions, usually tied to one or more Roblox ranks.

Session: a scheduled shift, training or event with roles to claim.

Slot: one place in a session's role, which one person can hold.

Staffr: Nebula Staffr, the service that takes job applications, reviewed in Rosterr.

Sticky note: the pinned message on Home.

Suspended: a workspace locked by Nebula.

Tag: a label put on a session.

Template: a saved starting point (for example a moderation case template).

Wall: the workspace's message board.

Waitlist: the early-access queue.

White label: removing Nebula Rosterr's branding (Business).

Workspace: the home of one Roblox group in Rosterr.

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