Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College uses Desire2Learn as their learning content management (LMS) system and I want to set up rotating glossary terms in a widget. Most textbook sites have glossary terms set up and I found that I could copy them to the D2L glossary tool. I did this by copying to excel, added the proper headings to work in D2L and then imported them into D2L. It was not hard. Next, I downloaded NVU (a web editor) and followed the information and
steps in the Rotating Content tool to convert my 20 glossary terms to
JavaScript. Here is a picture of how I created this in NVU.
I then published it to a Javascript and uploaded the .js file to D2L and created a widget, added a little javascript code, and I now have a widget with rotating terms with definitions. It looks like this:
Want the step-by-step instructions? jmitchell@smwc.edu