Glossary Activity: Adding a New Entry [Faculty & Student]

Description

The Glossary activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions similar to a dictionary. This guide will be focused on entries and categories if you would like more information you can find it in the Glossary guide.

This Guide Will Help You to:

Add a New Glossary Entry

  1. Select the glossary to which you wish to add an entry.

""

  1. Select  Add entry.

""

General

  1. In the Concept text field, type the title of your entry.

  2. In the Definition text field, type the content of your entry.

""

[Note: You can add images, sound, and video into your entries. For more information, see Overview: HTML Editor in Moodle ISU [Faculty & Student]]

  1. In the Keyword(s) text field, type a keyword.

""

  1. In the Attachment area, Drag and drop a file to attach it to your entry.

Auto-linking

For more information, see Moodle.org: Auto-linking

Tags

For more information see, Moodle.org: Using tags

Save settings

  • Select Save changes to add entry.

  • Select Cancel to cancel changes and delete entry.

Add a New Category

[Note: The Browse by category option is not available if the appearance of the glossary is set as simple, dictionary style. Below are a list of options under appearance that allows you to add a new Category

  • Continuous without author

  • Encyclopedia

  • Entry list

  • FAQ

  • Full with author

  • Full without author]

To add glossary entries to a category, you will need to create the categories first, which enables a Categories box underneath the Definition area in the entry creation setting in which you may select the category you wish to insert the entry.

  1. Select the glossary where you would like to add the category.

""

  1. Select Browse by category in the drop-down menu.

""

  1. Select Edit Categories.

""

  1. Select Add Category.

""

  1. Type the name of the category into the Name text box.

""

  1. Select Save changes.

Seek Further Assistance

For additional assistance, please contact the ITRC at (208) 282 5880 or itrc@isu.edu

For more information, please visit Moodle.org:

Creative Commons License
This work was created by the Idaho State University Instructional Technology Resource Center and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Print Article

Related Articles (1)

The TinyMCE editor in Moodle ISU appears on any page where text can be entered. You can use the editor to manipulate text, insert images, create links, etc.