Confused

Confused

by Annie Price -
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Hi Folks,

I hope someone is going to be able to help me.

Part of our course involves symbols in context and I am not sure how to enter the title of a glossary entry.

If we have

symbol 1 in context 1
symbol 1 in context 2
symbol 2 in context 1

Will they show up as seperate entries?  or do I need to have a heading of symbol one and enter all contexts under it.  This will be rather unweildy for us.

If they do show up as seperate entries will the individual words be auto-linked or the whole phrase or both?

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Re: Confused

by Lesli Smith -

Hi, Annie.  This sounds like an activity that might be a better candidate for the database module.  Have you looked at the database?  It allows you to customize entry fields a bit more for assignments that have open-ended entries that need to be populated by students.

If you are just needing a concept organizer feature by context (and the assessment part isn't asking the students to identify a context that you haven't already set up) you can also try setting up categories in the glossary for pre-set contexts.  Then the student chooses the context from a dropdown as a tag, and the term gets organized into a searchable context category at the same time.  It has been a while since I did this, but I can post pics if you need it.

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Re: Confused

by Annie Price -

Hi Lesli,

Thanks so much for the response.

What I am trying to do is just set up a searchable glossary/database that the students can use as a lookup facility during their research.

I will take a look at the database module but would you mind showing me what you mean with the glossary please.

BTW we are using 2.2

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Re: Confused

by Lesli Smith -

Certainly.  The official documentation for adding categories in a glossary in 2.2 is here.

Here is what it looks like once you have set up a list of categories:

SampleGlossaryCategories

Here is what it looks like when you go to add an entry and tag it as belonging to one of those categories:

sampleglossaryentrywithcategories

 

Hope that helps you make your decision.  I'm on 2.3, but this has been standard functionality for a while in the glossary.  It should look the same for you, too.

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Re: Confused

by Annie Price -

Thanks for that Lesli,

Do you happen to know whether in auto-linking a phrase is linked or just each word of that phrase?

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Re: Confused

by Lesli Smith -

Sorry, I haven't tried auto-linking categories, so I'm not 100% certain whether it will use the entry parameters for linking single words or whole phrases or if it will automatically only link the whole phrase.  The help docs seem to suggest it will be by whole phrase:

Autolinkglossarycategory

I have used auto-linking for terms in the glossary, and controlling whether terms are linked by full phrase or single key words is something that has worked in the past for me.

See below.

Autolinkentrieswithcategories

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Re: Confused

by Annie Price -

Hi,

In the end I thought I would just go for it and try a few and it works if you put each word or phrase in the keywords - single word or phrase automatically links to the same phrase anywhere on site.  Such a relief.

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Re: Confused

by Joseph Rézeau -
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@Annie,

It would help us understand your problem if you gave a few real examples of the words you want to enter in your glossary: concept, definition and a short extract of a course text where those concepts would appear.

Joseph

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