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- Do you want student entries to be approved by default?
- Do you want to pre-populate the glossary with some terms to show students how it can be used?
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- Do you have any quizzes or discussion forums in your course where you would want to turn off the auto-linking feature?
How do I set one up?
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Add a Glossary quick guide
- To add a glossary to your course, Turn editing on, then click on the Add an activity or resource link and select Glossary.
- Enter a Name and Description (which you can display if you wish).
- Leave all the option settings as they are, including:
- Automatically link glossary entries - This means if an instance of a term appears in your course it is highlighted with the option to click and see a pop-up definition).
Approved by default - This means student entries will appear immediately and don't need to be approved by a tutor first.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and display.
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Caveats
- If your course contains a Moodle quiz to test student knowledge, you might want to turn off the auto-linking in just this quiz. You do this by turning off Glossary auto-linking in the quiz settings.
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The following example shows the pop-up entry, which appears after clicking on the term 'active learning' in a forum post.
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Questions & Answers
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Further information
Glossary entries can be searched or browsed within the Glossary activity as well as set to appear as pop-up definitions whenever the term appears in texts created within a given Moodle course e.g. emails in forums and Moodle web pages (not in uploaded PDFs or Word Docs).
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- Select whether the automatic linking is case sensitive.
- Select whether the automatic linking should Match whole words only.
Click on Save changes.
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If you are using the glossary you might want to add the Random Glossary Entry block (see Miniguide M07 to find out how to do this). This block can be used to display random entries from your glossary. This block can be adapted to provide a 'Quote of the Day' or a random picture gallery that changes each time the page is refreshed, the example above is random entry from a glossary of LaTex markup. Before using the Random Glossary Entry block you have to configure it using the Edit icon.
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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.
- Entering these extra tags is done using the Edit icon to edit the text as normal. Then in the text editor, usingthe
tool to view the HTML of your content
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