Good morning.
I received the following email this morning and am wondering if anyone has any
suggestions.
“Hi Heather,
I have an open textbook/ ed tech question for you. Do you know of any software for making
glossaries? Pressbooks has a type of page called a glossary, but doesn’t have any
glossary-specific functionality. Perhaps it was intended as a placeholder. Right now the
textbook just has end-matter with a long list of terms, but it’s a major job to keep track
of whether a term has been listed and/or defined, and alphabetizing is all manually done.
I did a quick search to see what glossary software is out there, but I was wondering if
you knew off-hand about anything that is particularly reliable, and that we are unlikely
to lose access to at some point in the future. An open source solution that we can run on
our own might help, though I would need help with getting it set up on a local server.”
Heather M. Ross (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)
Educational Developer (Digital Pedagogies)
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning
Research Fellow
Open Education Group
Room 50.5, Murray Building
University of Saskatchewan
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email: heather.ross@usask.ca<mailto:heather.ross@usask.ca>
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