Glossary

[AgataOleksiak]

Is it possible to implement the same solution as RMIT? I was trying to follow on their PDF https://www.rmit.edu.au/content/dam/rmit/documents/staff-site/Learning_and_Teaching/Learning-and-Tea... , but it hasn't worked for me. Does something additional need to be activated? Thank you

[nwilson7]

@AgataOleksiak The link you provided does not work, can you please explain what you are trying to do?

-Nick

[Ron_Bowman]

@AgataOleksiak 

I am with @nwilson7 -- your link is broken.  Plus it looks like you may have to be logged into the system in order to view the actual page.

Please provide more information about what you would like information on.

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[Sukra]

I have the same question - I would like to set up a course glossary that highlights all terms on any course pages and provides an explanation (as hover/mouse-over-effect). I have come across the instructions from RMIT under https://www.rmit.edu.au/content/dam/rmit/documents/staff-site/Learning_and_Teaching/Learning-and-Tea... but was unable to reproduce it. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Thanks!!

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sukra,

It looks to me like the Glossary tool is something custom that RMIT may have developed locally.  It's not something that is a part of standard Canvas installations as far as I'm aware, so it's unlikely people outside of RMIT will be able to use that functionality right now.

-Chris

[Chris_Hofer]

@Sukra ...

You might be able to accomplish something like this using a "lightbox effect".  Seven years ago, I wrote a blog entry here in the Community about it, and you can find it here: Lightbox Effect.  Maybe it will give you some ideas to use in your own course.

[Chris_Hofer]

@Sukra ...

Here's another possibility for you to consider:

Add a Tooltip to Text

1. Type your text into the Rich Content Editor.
2. Change to HTML editor. How do I use the HTML view in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
3. Put <span title="Text you want to display in the tooltip"> before your text and </span> after your text.

Example

<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span title="Text Tooltip">Here is some text with a tooltip.</span>

The blue "Text Tooltip" text is the content of the tooltip (abbreviated for the code snippet), and the black "Here is some text with a tooltip" text is the text to which the tooltip is applied.

You might even want to bold/italics the words that students will see on the page so that they know they need to hover their mouse over those words in order to see the tooltip.

[Lsheehy7]

Hi @Chris_Hofer,

Does this suggestion work from an accessibility standpoint? If they have to hover, how does it work with a screen reader?

Thank you!
Laura

[Chris_Hofer]

@Lsheehy7 ...

This is something you can try yourself...but I did try it in my own sandbox course.  I pasted the code I provided into a content page (via the HTML editor).  Then, I used the Immersive Reader tool to see what it might look like.  Here are the results:

The page name/title is "hover text", but my "Text Tooltip" text (the text you would see when you hover over the other text) doesn't show up within the Immersive Reader interface.

Hope this helps a bit.

[Lsheehy7]

Hi @Chris_Hofer,

We have Read Speaker on our Canvas. When I use it, it only reads "Text Tooltip" it doesn't read anything else in the line... interesting...

[Sukra]

Hi Chris, thanks a lot for your tips. I'm afraid it won't be possible to change all pages that way but for certain instances it's definitely useful.