Activity 1: Setting up a class glossary

Aim: Build a collection of useful, searchable vocabulary items

Moodle modules: Glossary

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: *

Making vocabulary lists is nothing new for most students. So what's different about Moodle's Glossary? Well, for a start, it's easy to set up, and is a good activity to start with. Much of the default setup won't even need changing. The big advantage of the Moodle Glossary is that we can manipulate our wordlists. We can sort them by author, category, and entry. We can enhance our glossary with other media, such as images and audio and video recordings. Glossary entries, called "concepts" in Moodlespeak, can then be automatically linked to other texts. So if our students are reading a text in Moodle with a potentially unknown word in it, we can create an entry in the glossary for that word. They then have an automatic link from the difficult word in the text to the glossary entry.

To sum up, glossaries are good to use for vocabulary...