Adding/Deactivating Taxonomies

You easily create Taxonomy terms (Taxonomies) manually in Cirrus:

• Go to Admin > Taxonomies
• Here you will see an overview of repositories with Taxonomies referred to as Taxonomy categories are setup for your environment:

• Select the Taxonomy Category you want to manually add Taxonomie terms to (or create a new one).
• The 'Add taxonomy'-screen will open where you can add / change / deactivate taxonomy terms:

• The category (repository) has a title and a short description [A]
• You can add and delete rows (taxonomy terms) using the buttons [B]
• Please note:  enter taxonomy terms in the order you want to display them for your item authors.  You cannot change the order of the terms at this point.
• You can (temporarily) deactivate individual terms [C]

Deactivating Taxonomy terms

When you deactivate taxonomy terms the following applies:

1. [Library] You can no longer select it when creating / editing an item
2. [Library] On existing items nothing changes, i.e. it does not automatically get deselected
3. [Assessments: Blueprints]
   1. The taxonomy category will still be visible in the dropdown box used to select your taxonomy category
   2. De-activated taxonomy terms are still available in the blueprint matrix for question selection as deactivation does not mean that authors might not want to use them for assessment authoring.