Text editor

The Moodle 2.0 HTML standard editor uses TinyMCE but other Text editors can be used.

The standard version of the HTML editor tool bar

List of groups

For those who are not familiar with the tool bar, here are the functions listed by group using the above example. Remember that the site administrator can edit or provide additonal toolbars.

Row 1

• - Font, size and heading group
• - Undo and Redo group
• - Find and Replace group
• |Full screen toggle

Row 2

• - Text effect group
• - Line format group
• - Formatting group
• - Color group
• - Paragraph group

Row 3

• - Number and Bullets and indents
• - Link group
• - Insert group
• - HTML source toggle & spellchecker

Special features

Color pickers

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There are 4 levels of selecting a font or background color,

• A quick pick 5x8 matrix of colors
• "More colors" that links to Picker, Pallet and Named tabs

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  A quick pick 5x8 matrix of colors
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  A rainbow color picker tab
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  A Pallet tab with a 18x12 matrix of colors
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  A Named tab with custom pallets

Insert images and media

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This feature uses the File picker and the File bank to manage files and repositories of media files.

A file picker example

See also

Text editors - Moodle 2.0 will handle many kind of text editors