23. Adding key glossary terms in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

Glossary: add key terms.
A glossary would
typically contain key terms and
definitions in a subject area, for
instance this theatre glossary .With the
Moodle glossary you can browse by
alphabet, category, date or author, and you
can also search for particular key terms.
Because Moodle encourages collaboration
learners can add key terms to a Moodle
glossary, so you could create a glossary
where they build their knowledge
together.
Let's make a glossary in our
Moodle course.
To do that we need to turn
the editing on from the gear menu top
right and then in the section where we
want the glossary - I'm going to add mine
to the writing section - we click the link
Add an activity or resource.
This brings
up the activity chooser.
Glossary is an
activity because learners interact with
it and so we click it once to get some
information about ideas for using the
glossary and then the Add button at the
bottom, or we can simply click it twice
to open it straight up.
Name is important because this is what
the learners will see on the course page.
In the description you can add the
instructions that you want to give them
for writing their terms, and you can
display this description on the course
page if you want by ticking the box.
There are many other settings and you
can find out about these and explore
them by expanding the links, such as if
we click Entries we can decide as our
teacher whether to allow all entries to
appear immediately or whether we want to
moderate them first,
whether we want to allow duplicate
entries - in other words can two learners
post the same term? - and whether we want
to allow them to comment on each of
these entries.
Linking glossary entries means that if
term is added to the course page or
items within the course then it is
automatically hyperlinked to the
glossary entry.
This makes use of filters
which we explore in a separate video.
Likewise if we click on Appearance we
can decide how we want the glossary to
be displayed for instance how many
entries to show per page.
Once we're
happy with all of these setting, if we
scroll down and click Save and display,
that takes us straight to the glossary
where we can add our first term, and we
do this by clicking the Add a new entry
button.
This is what the learners will do
when they contribute to the glossary.
For
concept we take the actual word and in
definition we type what it means.
It's possible to add keywords and also
to add attachments to the glossary,
and you see that as we go through each
entry, we can decide whether it should be
automatically linked or not, and whether
too match whole words or just parts of
words inside the glossary entry.
This is quite important to think about.
Finally we save the changes and we have
a glossary with one entry in it already.
If you're considering trying the
glossary activity it's worth also
exploring the Random glossary entry
block.