Glossary Entries
Creating and editing glossary entries can be done in either of the following ways:
- From within the Section Editor, select the word(s) for which you want to create a glossary entry and click the
icon from the toolbar. - In the Resource Browser, select “Glossary entries” from the drop-down in the top-left New category and press the “Create” button or respectively the
icon from the actions menu of an existing glossary entry.
Glossary entries will be displayed as a mouse-over tooltip an course content pages. Once at least one section of a course contains a glossary entry, the course export function will generate a glossary index page at the end of the course that will list all glossary entries in that course in alphabetical order.
Creating glossary entries from within the Section Editor
Screenshot: Buttons on Section Editor to access the Glossary Entry Editor
The Section Editor lets you create or link to glossary entries on-the-fly while writing text. The screenshot to the right shows the corresponding buttons in the toolbar:
- creates a new glossary entry and links the selected text to it. The selected text will then be displayed in green color with the
icon next to it to represent that it is linked to a glossary entry. When you place the text cursor on that word later on, you can directly edit the glossary entry. Please note that the new glossary entry will be created as a regular resource that you will find in the Resource Browser.
Screenshot: Glossary Entry Editor from within the Section Editor
opens a search dialog to look for an existing glossary entry that the selected text should link to. Once you have found and linked a glossary entry, you can directly edit it with help of the button. The screenshot to the right shows the editor dialog that is displayed, when editing a glossary entry from within the Section Editor.
Creating glossary entries from the Resource Browser
Screenshot: Glossary Entry Editor
Selecting Glossary entry from the drop-down in the Resource Browser and using the Create button, you can create and edit a new glossary entry, which can be linked from a section later on. The editor itself is very much like the one used when editing glossary entries from the Section Editor except for one additional feature:
The toolbar has an additional icon (
) that lets you add media resources to the glossary entry description. The fact that this feature currently is missing on the editor in the Section Editor is due to technical reasons.
The screenshot to the left shows the editor and an open preview window.
