0.6 Adding and editing text in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

Adding and editing text.
In many places in Moodle where you can type
in text,
you will see Moodle's purpose-built editor
known as Atto.
We see it here in a topic
section summary.
Many of the icons you'll
know from word processing or other
online programs but some may be
unfamiliar.
The link icon allows you to
link text to an external website or an
uploaded file.
For instance if we
select the text BBC talk French and then
click the link, a pop-up appears allowing
us to paste in a URL or web address.
The
text will change colour but note that the
link will only work once you've saved the
changes.
The media icon here offers
many options for adding sound and video
along with thumbnail images and subtitles.
We explore adding media in a
later video.
The Atto editor allows you to drag and
drop images directly onto the textbox,
something we look at in another video
and it automatically saves what you type
so if you have to leave it for a while
or you accidentally go on to a different
page or lose your connection,
you don't have to start again.
Two other useful icons are here: they
help ensure your text is designed well
to make it accessible for everyone on
all devices including people with
restricted sight who use screen readers.
If you really want to use different
colors and different font styles and you
know about design you can change your
editor if your admin allows by going to
the user menu top right, clicking on
preferences then editor preferences.
Technical people might choose plaintext
if they want to add code and tiny MCE is
an alternative editor which many people
know from other online software such as
blogging software.
If we select it you can
see what it looks like, and again the
hamburger icon top-left allows you to
expand the toolbar for more options.
However, Tiny MCE does not have the same
features as Atto and for that reason we
suggest you use Moodle's own editor Atto.