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This entry relates to the Glossary activity.

Glossary has some optional settings which you can use, depending on the glossary's purpose and what you want students to do.

• Moderate glossary entries before they are published
• Set up ratings in a glossary
• Set up auto-linking in a glossary entry
  

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Moderate glossary entries before they are published

1. Edit your glossary's settings
   
   
   
2. Open the Entries section and, change Approved by default to No
   
   
   
   
3. Click Save and display
   
   
4. To moderate glossary entries, view the list of glossary entries, and click on the Waiting approval link in the top right corner of the page.
   
   

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Set up ratings in a glossary

You may wish students to rate other students' work (peer assess). If making this part of the assessment, you could then view the ratings and determine an overall rating for a student. Glossary entries can be rated using a scale. By default, only teaching staff can rate glossary entries, though students can be given permission to do so if desired (see step 2 below). Any ratings given are recorded in the Gradebook.

If you set up glossaries for rating, the glossary item will automatically appear in the Gradebook. Otherwise, if you want to assess the glossary you will need to manually add it to the Gradebook.

1. Edit the settings of the glossary you wish to set up ratings for
   
   
   
2. Under Ratings, check the Roles with permission to rate list. If you want students to rate posts, you will need to add Student to this list. To do this, contact your local eLearning support team 
   
   
3. Set the Aggregate type: 
   • Average of ratings (default) – useful if there is more than one post/one marker
   • Count of ratings: The number of rated items becomes the final grade. Note that the total cannot exceed the maximum grade for the activity
   • Maximum rating: The highest rating becomes the final grade
   • Minimum rating: The lowest rating becomes the final grade
   • Sum of ratings: All ratings are added together. Note that the total cannot exceed the maximum grade for the activity
     
     
4. Set the Scale Type:
• If you change the type to Scale, change the scale to Non-graded pass so no Maximum points can be set
• If you tick the box Restrict ratings to items with dates in this range: you will need to set the dates (From, To)
• If leave the type as Point, you can set the Maximum points (default is 100)
  Note: You can leave the default at 100, as if you set the weighting of the final grade for this assessment in Gradebook, the grade will be automatically scaled down
  
  
5.   If you tick the box Restrict ratings to items with dates in this range: you will need to set the dates (From, To)
    
   
   
6. Click Save and display

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Set up auto-linking in a glossary entry

If the glossary auto-linking filter is enabled, entries will be automatically linked where the concept works and/or phrases appear within the topic.  
These steps must be repeated for each entry for which auto-linking is desired.

1. Open your glossary and click on the Add a new entry button
   

2. Enter the entry's Concept and Definition, along with any relevant Categories, Keywords and Attachments 
   
   
3. Under the Auto-linking heading, enable auto-linking by selecting the check box beside This entry should be automatically linked 
      
   
   
4. Click Save changes 
   
   

Enable auto-linking in an existing glossary entry

To enable auto-linking in an existing glossary entry, identify the relevant entry in the glossary and select the cog icon to the right of the entry.  Enable auto-linking as in step 3 above.