Whether you’re creating or editing a text block on a page, message of a thread or a post in the teacher bulletin, the content editor has a similar set of options.
Not all editor options are available in all places. For example, you cannot embed an external webpage (using an iframe) in a forum reply, while this is possible on a page text block.
As the page text block has the most options, we’ll look at the text block to see what’s possible:
Style: choose between ‘paragraph’ (main content) and six different levels of headings
Code block: put text in a so-called monospace font (all characters have same width) and select which code you’re adding (e.g. HTML)
Font family: set the font of your text
Font size: set the font size of your text (choose between tiny, small, default, big and huge)
Note: if you want to add a heading, it’s better to use the ‘Style’ option (1)
Font colour: set the colour of your text
Background colour: set the background colour for your text
Bold: make the text bold
Note: if you want to add a heading, it’s better to use the ‘Style’ option (1)Italic: make the text italic
Underline: make the text underlined
Strikethrough: put a line through the text
Remove formatting: clear all formatting of the selected text
Superscript: make the text superscript (small and up, like the 2 in CO2)
Subscript: make the text subscript (small and down)
Special characters: insert a special character, like arrows or letters with accents
Text alignment: determine whether the text should be left-aligned, centred, right-aligned or justified (spread across full width)
Decrease indent: decrease the left margin of the text
Increase indent: increase the left margin of the text
Undo: undo changes that you made to text and formatting
Redo: re-apply changes that you undid
Source: check and edit the source code for your content
Note: you can only add source code for tags and code which is allowed also in the visual editor, anything else (like JavaScript) will be stripped when saving your content
Link: insert a link or turn selected text into a link
Note: the text in the ‘title’ field will show in the browser when you hover a link, but it is better not to use it for accessibility reasons and include the description in the main text instead
Bulleted list: insert a bullet list or turn selected text into a bullet list
Numbered list: insert a numbered list or turn selected text into a numbered list – click in the triangle next to the icon to make your list start with a different number or reverse the order (make it count down instead of counting normally)
Quote: insert a quote block (indent and line on the left) or turn selected text into a quote block
Insert media: upload a new material (image, video or file) or insert an existing one (see next page)
Iframe: insert an iframe to embed an external webpage (such as a Padlet)
Note: we recommend to only provide the URL – the height and width of the iframe will be adjusted automatically
Table: insert a table (see next pages)