Adding activities

Adding a glossary entry

You will then need to add entries to your glossary.

To add a new entry to your glossary, switch editing on, go to your course’s homepage and click on your glossary’s title.

This will take you to the glossary, which currently has no entries. Click on the Add entry button to open the Add entry page.

Type your term into the Concept field and its definition into the Definition field.

You can also add related terms in the Keyword(s) field, starting each one on a new line. If your glossary entried are automatically linked (see below) then the keywords will be automatically linked too.

Each glossary entry can have an associated list of keywords (or aliases). If the entry is auto-linked, then any keywords will also be auto-linked. Enter each keyword on a new line (not separated by commas).

There are three options in Auto-linking, all ticked by default:

• This entry should be automatically linked: If site-wide glossary automatic linking has been enabled by an administrator and this tickbox is ticked, the entry will be automatically linked wherever it appears in the course. (Note that if this option is unticked, the following two options are not available.)
• This entry is case sensitive: This setting specifies whether matching exact upper and lower case is necessary when there is automatic linking. You may wish to untick this for terms that are not always be capitalised, for example.
• Match whole words only: This setting specifies whether only whole words will be linked. For example, if this option is checked, a glossary entry named ‘construct’ will not create a link inside the word ‘constructivism’. 

Click on the Save changes button. Your new glossary entry will now appear in the blossary. It will have an editing button next to it (a pen icon) if you need to make further amendments: