Vocabulary Terms

Attaching and modifying terms (grouped by vocabularies in Ilios) is performed at both the course level as well as at the session level.

Add Vocabulary Term

For the sake of demonstration, we will start with a course that has not had any vocabulary terms attached at this point.

Select Course

The course has been selected (Airways, Blood and Circulation - 2024). The Edit Course section has good information about searching for and selecting a course to view/modify.

course selected

Show Details

When a course is selected initially, the course details are hidden. Click "Show Details" as shown below to reveal these other field maintenance areas.

show details

Scrolling down the page past Leadership, Objectives, Learning Materials, and Competencies, you will find the Term maintenance area. Activating this functionality is accomplished by the clicking "Manage Terms" as shown below.

Manage Terms

manage terms

After clicking as shown above, the screen appears as follows. These terms and vocabularies are configured at the school level. The term maintenance area appears as shown below.

term maintenance area

Switch Vocabulary

Using the vocabulary swticher, a different vocabulary can be selected. In this case, we are chosing "Topics".

switch to topics

Now that "Topics" has been chosen as the vocabulary selected, the terms available for selection will reflect this choice. Only terms from the vocabulary "Topics" will be available.

Updated Vocabulary

There is also filtering available allowing for the terms in any selected vocabulary to be searched and made easier to find for attachment to this course.

topics displayed

Term - Search and Select

The selection process is straightforward. You can search to limit the result set or scroll to find the correct one to add to this course. In the example, we are selecting "Health Care Financing" to be added as a term (from the "Topics" vocabulary).

select term to add

The details about this term are included to show that the mouse-over pop-up reveals the term's description. This is from the Schools >> Vocabularies section of Ilios.

term details

Term - Selected for Course

term selected to be added to course

Term - Added and Saved

After performing the suggested "save" action shown in the screen shot above, the term added in the previous step is now saved to the database and is attached to this course. It can be removed if need be. "Manage Terms" can be opened to perform this removal action.

term added and saved