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Cell borders are crucial for helping readers to follow the rows across the screen. If they aren’t showing already you will need to add them as follows: | Cell borders are crucial for helping readers to follow the rows across the screen. If they aren’t showing already you will need to add them as follows: |
Revision as of 14:21, 14 October 2011
The text editor (sometimes referred to as the 'HTML editor' or even 'TinyMCE') has many icons to assist the user in entering content. Many of these icons and functions should be familiar to anyone who uses a word processor. Some examples of where you will see the text editor include: Editing Section headings, description of an activity, writing an answer to a quiz question or editing the content of many blocks.
Video introduction to the text editor
HTML editor in Moodle 2.0 video:
<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJE6UhqnyjU</mediaplayer>
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
Row 2
Row 3
Special features
Color pickers
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
Insert images and media
- 1 Insert Image - uses File picker
- 2 Insert Emoticon
- 3 Insert Media - uses File picker
- 4 Insert Equation - uses java script editor
- 5 Insert Non breaking space
- 6 Insert Custom character - Special keyboard characters
- 7 Insert Table -
File picker
Equation editor
Custom character
Insert table
To add borders to a table
Cell borders are crucial for helping readers to follow the rows across the screen. If they aren’t showing already you will need to add them as follows:
- In the Wiki page containing your table, click its Edit tab
- Carefully select all the cells of the table
- Then right click (Macs: Command+click or Ctrl+Click) over any part of your selection to get a context menu; from it select Cell > Table Cell Properties; the cell properties dialog box then loads.
- Click on its Advanced tab, set Border Color to black (for instance), then click Apply, and then click Update.
- Click Save; the Wiki page containing your table will then load displaying its borders.
Site administration settings
Manage editors
A site administrator can enable / disable text editors in Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Manage editors. By default the TinyMCE HTML editor and plain text area are enabled.
HTML settings
A site administrator can edit the emoticons (or smileys) used in the text editor in Settings > Site administration > Appearence > HTML settings.