Embed, Exchange or Remove Glossary

Last modified by Carina Enke on 17.11.2025

Assign a glossary to your course as follows:

Open the Icon_zweiRädchen.png More settings menu in the top right corner of the course.

 

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Select the first entry Settings.

The Course settings dialogue opens. Click the Icon_Link intern.png Assign glossary button in the Course tools section under Glossary.

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This opens a table with all available glossary resources. Select the desired glossary by clicking on the corresponding Icon_Plus.png plus icon in the Actions column.

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The selected glossary will be displayed in the course settings dialogue under Currently assigned together with its title, ID and creation date.

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You can edit the assignment at any time.

  • To choose a different glossary, click on Icon_Link intern.png Change .
  • To completely remove the current assignment, select Icon_Link entfernen.png Remove assignment.
Warning

You can only embed one glossary per course.

Information

With the release of OPAL 11.4, the function for embedding a glossary resource has become available in the new user interface. How to embed a glossary in the old user interface through the detailed view is explained in this section:

Embed glossary through detailed view ...

To use a glossary in a course, proceed as follows:

1

Open the course and select the entry Details and settings from the menu.

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2

In the Learning resource area on the right, click on Change properties.

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3

A dialogue opens. Switch to the tab Glossary and click on Select glossary.

 

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This opens an overview of all available glossaries. Click on Select.

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