How can I use the Glossary?
A glossary is a course-specific list of dictionary definitions. Entries can be created by tutors and students.
Using glossaries, students and tutors can create and maintain a course dictionary.
Why not engage your students more by asking them to research specific definitions of words? Or you could use the glossary creatively to ask your students to define words from a text with their own understanding of what that means- and analyse these results in class.
How do I set up a glossary?
1. Under Add an activity, select Glossary.
2. Enter a Name and Description, leave all the option settings as they are, including 'Automatically link glossary entries'. What this means is when the term appears in your course, it is highlighted with the option to click for a definition to pop-up in a new window.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and display.
4. To add glossary entries to your new glossary, click on the name of the glossary.
5. Click Add a new entry.
6. Enter the Concept and Definition.
Note: If switched on, automatic linking will occur whenever the concept words and phrases appear throughout the rest of the same course within Moodle. This includes anywhere the text editor is used to enter text such as forum postings, labels, web pages, books and so on. Files and external websites will not be linked.
If you do not want particular text to be linked (in a page title, say) then you should add <nolink> and </nolink> tags around the text in the HTML underlying code.)