Designer's Guide: Glossary

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The D2L GLOSSARY tool allows you to create a glossary for your course.  To access this tool, you must first make it an active tool at your course site and add the GLOSSARY link to your course navigation bar.  (For instructions on how to do this, go to Edit Course in this Designer's Guide.)
Add Glossary Items | Import Glossary Items

Add Glossary Items

  1. Use the GLOSSARY link to open the GLOSSARY tool.
  2. Click on Administration.  This will open a pop-up Glossary Administration screen.

     
  1. Click on Add New Item.
  2. Type the glossary term title in the Term text box.
  3. Add the definition to the Definition field.
  4. If you would write the text in html code, then select the html box.
  5. If you would like the glossary term to link to a content topic, select the topic from the drop-down menu.  Note: you must have the content topics already created in order to link the glossary item to it.

Import Glossary Items

You may wish to import a glossary created or imported from another source and saved on your hard drive.  To import multiple glossary terms, you must supply an Excel spreadsheet containing your glossary information.  The spreadsheet must have the following two-column format: The "A" column contains term names ("A1" cell must contain the text "term") and the "B" column contains term definitions ("B1" cell must contain the text "definition").  To import this glossary into your D2L course site GLOSSARY:
  1. Use the GLOSSARY link to open the GLOSSARY tool.
  2. Click on Administration.  This will open a pop-up Glossary Administration screen.
  1. Click on Import Multiple Items.  (A template Excel file is supplied.)
  2. BROWSE to find the required Excel file and click OPEN.
  3. Click UPLOAD to import the glossary file.
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