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Title of script: Glossary
Author: ela goyal
Keywords: Glossary, moodle
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| Switch to slide no 1 | Spoken Tutorial
Scripts and Functions In Moodle Talk to a Teacher National Mission on Education through ICT http://spoken-tutorial.org Script Ela Goyal Narration Ela Goyal 18 October 2010 |
| Switch to slide no 2 | Welcome to spoken tutorial. In the coming few minutes, we'll talk about how to create a Glossary on the moodle site.Each Moodle course has its own set of glossaries. Only teachers can edit the main glossary. Secondary glossaries may be configured to allow student entries and comments. |
| Switch to Terminal | Click the “Turn editing on” button. Select Glossary from the “Add an activity” drop-down menu. On the “Adding a new glossary” page, give your new glossary a descriptive name. Write a description of the glossary and give directions to your students in the Description area. Select the general options: Entries shown per page. Is this glossary global?- Administrators can make a global glossary, with entries linking throughout the whole site. Glossary type - The glossary can be either main or secondary. You can export entries from any secondary glossary into the main glossary. Duplicated entries allowed. Allow comments on entries - Students and teachers can leave comments on glossary definitions. Allow print view. Automatically link glossary entries - Moodle has a text-filter feature that automatically creates a link from a word
in the course to its glossary definition. Approved by default -If students are allowed to add entries, you can allow entries to be automatically approved and added to the glossary, or they can require your approval before other students are able to see them. Display format - You can select how the glossary appears when students list the entries. Show “Special” link - When users browse the glossary, they can select the first character of a word from a list. Show alphabet - You can use this option to display the alphabet for easier glossary browsing. Show “ALL” link - If you want students to see all of the glossary entries at once, set this to Yes. Edit always - If you want entries to be always editable, set this to Yes. Click the “Save changes” button at the bottom of the page. |
| Switch to slide no 3 | Once you’ve created your glossary, it’s a good idea to seed it with a couple of entries so students have a model to work from. |
| Switch to Terminal | The main view of the glossary can be a bit confusing at first. Under the main Moodle navigation bar, you’ll find the glossary description. Directly below the glossary description, you’ll see the search bar. Checking the “Search full text” box allows searching for a given word in any position in the text. Below the search bar is the “Add a new entry” button, then four browse tabs: Browse by alphabet, Browse by category, Browse by date, Browse by Author. At the top right of the page, below the “Update this Glossary” button, are a few links: Import entries, Export entries, Waiting approval (If your default approval is set to No, this link will appear with the number of entries waiting approval in brackets. Clicking on the link will list the entries, with an approve tick icon opposite each one.) Once you’ve oriented yourself to the page, you can add an entry to the glossary. From the Glossary page, click the “Add a new entry” button. Enter the word you want to define in the Concept text field. Add the definition of the word or concept. If you’ve defined categories in the “Browse by category” tab, you can categorize your entry here. If there are synonyms you want to include with the entry, add them to the Keyword(s) text area. Enter one word per line. If you want to add an attachment, such as a picture or an article, you can attach it below the Keyword(s) text area. If you want this particular entry to be linked automatically within the course, check the “This entry should be automatically linked” checkbox. If you select automatic linking, the checkboxes below determine whether the links are case sensitive and whether only whole words are linked. Click the “Save changes” button to add your word to the glossary. |
| Switch to slide no 4 | Spoken Tutorials are part of Talk to a Teacher. Supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information: http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro This tutorial has been created by Ms. Ela Goyal from SIES College of Management Studies, Mumbai. |
