The Glossary activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, similar to a dictionary, or to collect and organize resources or information related to the course they are participating in.

To add this activity to the course, simply select it from the Activities tab and fill in the name and type of glossary.

We also need to configure the sections corresponding to Entries and Appearance of the activity.

For the Entries section, we have these options:

• Default approval status: This option controls whether entries need to be moderated and approved by a teacher before being published.
• Always allow editing: With this option, we control whether students can edit entries at any time or only for a certain period.
• Allow duplicate entries: We control whether two entries with the same name can be added.
• Allow comments on entries: Here we decide if participants with permission to add comments can comment on glossary entries.
• Auto-link to glossary entries: This feature allows that, when creating a new entry, the words in the definition that are glossary entries are automatically linked, enabling navigation between entries.

For the Appearance section,

• Entry display format: Allows us to choose among 7 ways to view entries, such as Simple, dictionary style (which does not show the authors of the entries and where attachments appear as links), Continuous without author (with entries one after another without any separation except for the editing icons), or FAQ (with the words QUESTION and ANSWER attached to their respective concepts and definitions).
• Display format during approval: By default, it will be the same as the previous one, but we can choose any of the available formats.
• Entries per page: The number of entries per page we want to display.
• Show alphabet links: This option allows students to search for and display entries that start with a certain letter.
• Show 'ALL' link: To allow displaying all entries.
• Show 'Special' link: Allows searching using special characters, such as @ or #.
• Allow print view: Enables print view for students.

When you finish, save. You can now start adding entries to the glossary by clicking Add entry and filling in the fields.