Glossary Activity

I've got a glossary of ballistics-related terms that I currently give to students as part of their welcome pack. It's basically a sheet of paper I hand out to my students that I wrote in Microsoft Word years ago. If I wanted to, I could easily convert it to Moodle using the Glossary activity. So what would make me want to? What are the advantages of me doing this conversion?

What's great about converting a glossary over to Moodle is that: