Moodle - Text Editor

Moodle - Text Editor

The editor in Moodle provides a simple interface to format text, add images, and add multimedia content. It supports a wide range of tools to make content creation more interactive, accessible, and engaging.

The editor's toolbar contains many buttons. This article will go over the more commonly used buttons.

You can mouse over a button in the editor toolbar to see a tooltip for that button. In this example, mousing over the button the left tells us that this button is for adding a link and the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl + k.


The most commonly used buttons are at the top left of the toolbar.

  • Paragraph formatting: set selected text to a heading or paragraph.

  • Bold: bold selected text

  • Italics: italicise selected text

  • Lists: set selected text to a bulleted or numbered list

  • Link: link selected text

Here are more commonly used buttons:

 

  • Image: insert an image

  • Video (Embed Kaltura Media): Add video or audio. Learn more here on adding video and audio in Moodle.

  • Undo and Redo: Undo and redo any edits you've made since the last time you saved

  • Alignment: align selected text or image either left, center, or right

  • Table: Insert or edit table

  • Clear formatting: Remove formatting from selected content

  • Fullscreen: Edit in fullscreen

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