a user in lams Organisation in LAMS: essentially a grouping of users. This might map to organisational structure, course structure or class structure joins a user to an org with a role Table enumerates the types for organizations: current available types: root (the root org used by the system administrator) base (the base org of a particular LAMS client org: e.g. a university or school). sub (child org of a the base org) represents a method of authorization in LAMS enumerates the types of authorization method LAMS supports: Current values: LAMS (lams DB: compare user/password against user table). WEB_AUTH (user is authroized via WebAuth). Future: LDAP (compare user/pawword against an LDAP instance) COOKIE (user authorized by a cookie) parameters for an authorization method