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#Glossary Authoring
#Glossary Viewing
#Database Table
#SmartSite Migration
Glossary Authoring
Instructors access the Glossary feature for a course site via the Website Builder sub-menu.
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- Glossary is Active - the ability to activate or deactivate (make inaccessible to students)
- Exit Glossary Editor - returns user to Website Builder default screen
- Create New Glossary Term - enter a new term into the glossary
- Copy Glossary Term - allows the user to copy some or all glossary terms from another term and/or course
- Upload Glossary File - upload a tab-delimited Excel file containing term, definition, and category columns
Glossayr is Active
Faculty can activate or deactivate the glossary by clicking on the "Glossary is Active" link. If the glossary is deactivated, none of the glossary terms for this course will be visible to students.
Glossary Editing
Faculty can add or edit glossary terms using the Create New Glossary Term feature or by selecting the term; both actions bring up the glossary edit screen as shown here:
Glossary Term Editor
Copy Glossary Term
Faculty can also copy some or all glossary terms entered in another course offering into the current course offering using the Copy Glossary Term function.
Copy Glossary TermFinally, the
Upload Glossary File
The Upload Glossary File feature allow faculty to upload terms into the glossary as long as the upload is an Excel file and saved as Text (Tab Delimited) and each row of the spreadsheet consists of 3 columns: Term, Category, and Definition respectively.
Upload Glossary File
Automatic Hyperlink Glossary
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Terms
The glossary terms you create can be hyperlinked throughout all your Template and HTML pages. To automatically turn on/off the hyperlink feature on all your existing pages, click on the link below.
Automatic Hyperlink Glossary Terms
Glossary Viewing
Database Table
In the course management system, the database table for glossary data contains the following fields:
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The glossary is associated with the course offering in which the faculty user accesses the Glossary tool, so the term_code and crn are automatically generated.
SmartSite Migration
Glossary feature has no equivalent in Sakai/SmartSite at this time.