a glossary would typically contain
key terms and definitions in a subject area
for example this theater glossary. With a moodle glossary
you can browse by alphabet, category
date or author. And you can also search for particular
key terms.
Because moodle encourages
collaboration students can add terms to a moodle glossary
so you could create a glossary where they can build their knowledge
together
let's make a glossary in a moodle course
to do that we need to turn the editing button on
by clicking top right
or by scrolling down and in the administration block
clicking the link turn editing on. Then in the section
where we'd like a glossary I'm going to add mine
to the writing section we click the link
add an activity police or resource
this brings up the activity chooser
glossary is an activity because learners interact with it
and so we can click it twice to open it straight up
or once to get some information about ideas for using the glossary
and then once at the "add button" at the bottom
to add it.
The name is important because this is what the learners will see
on the course page
In the description
add the instructions that you want to give them for adding their key terms
you can display the description on the course page if you want to use by
checking the box.
There are many
other settings and you can find out about these and explore them
by clicking the links, so for example if we click
"entries" we can decide as the teacher whether to allow all entiresto appear
immediately
or whether we want to moderate them first. Whether we want
duplicate entries in other words if two students post the same key term
and whether we want to allow them to comment on each other's entries
Linking glossary entries means
that if a key term is added to the course page or items within the course
then its automatically hyperlinked to the glossary entry.
This makes use of filters which we will look at in a separate video
likewise if we click on appearance we can decide how we want the glossary to
be displayed
for example how many entries to show per page
Once we are happy with all of these settings
we simply need to scroll down and click save and return to course
what I'm actually going to do is click save and display
because that takes me straight to the glossary where we can
add our first key 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 typed the actual word and in definition
we type what it means.
it's possible to add keywords: and also to add attachments such as images 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 to much 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 already there. If you're looking at a glossary it's also worth
exploring in the block section
the random glossary entry block