Moodle 2.0

Adding Social Activities to Your Course
Only an Administrator can make a glossary into a global glossary. If you
have only Teacher rights, get an Administrator to do this for you.
Main and secondary glossaries
If you want students to be able to add entries to a Glossary, you must make it a
Secondary glossary. Prior to Moodle 1.7, only teachers could add terms to a Main
glossary. A Secondary glossary had only the terms that the students and the Teacher
add to it. Since Moodle 1.7 and the introduction of Roles, you can override these
settings and allow students to add entries to the main glossary through the Override
roles capability.
Only an Administrator can override roles.
You can export terms one-at-time from a Secondary glossary to a Main glossary. So
you could create a secondary glossary(s) to which students will add terms, and then,
you and/or the students could export the best terms to the main glossary. Imagine a
course with one main glossary, and a secondary glossary each time the course is run.
The main glossary would become a repository of the best terms added by each class.
You can add a Secondary glossary for each section in a course. For example, you
can put a Secondary glossary into each topic or week. Then, you can create a Main
glossary for the course that will automatically include all of the terms added to each
Secondary glossary. You can then put the Main glossary into Topic 0, the section at
the top of the course's Home Page. An alternative to using secondary glossaries is to
use one main glossary, and create categories within that glossary for each section in
the course. This keeps all glossary entries in one place.
If you want the course to have only one glossary, and you want students to be able to
add to it, make it a Secondary glossary. Even though the term "Secondary" implies
that there is also a primary or main glossary, this does not have to be the case. You
can have just a Secondary glossary (or more than one) in a course, without a
Main glossary.
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