The Moodle Glossary allows academics to build and display a list of terms and their definitions. Glossaries can be built collaboratively with students or exclusively by the academic.
Glossaries are commonly used to display definitions for important terms throughout the course or alongside the "Random Glossary Entry" block to provide randomised definitions for key terms.
Create a Glossary
Academics can create a glossary by selecting the "Glossary" option from the activity chooser. Entries are added into the glossary after creation and will behave differently depending on the chosen settings.
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Create a Glossary Entry
After creating a glossary, academics and optionally students can add entries containing terms and descriptions.
Depending on the settings, academics can allow students to add their own entries. Academics can approve or moderate these entries.
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Using Images and Videos
Visuals such as images and videos can be added to entries. This can provide additional context to improve understanding towards the descriptions.
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Hide or Approve an Entry
Academics can moderate glossary entries by approving and unapproving them. Only approved entries are shown to students.
The "Approved by default" setting can skip the approval process by automatically releasing entries as they are made.
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How to copy Glossary from another course?
Glossary entries can be imported/exported between the courses, instead of re-adding it each time. Import/ export options can be found on the main Glossary page: 