Editing Text: on activities and resources

Using the Text Editor

The text editor works like any simple word processing programme. You can type to add text or copy and paste. The menu (see image below) allows you to do a number of things.

The buttons are:

Button	Name and Description
	Show more Buttons / Show Less Buttons Click to show the second line of formatting options
	Undo
	Redo Only available after an action has been done
	Paragraph Styles The Paragraph styles are for headings, large, medium and small, plus to set your text to pre formatted (good for code, see the activity block for examples) and to reset your paragraph to the normal paragraph settings (note this can also be done with the clear formatting option).
	Bold Text
	Italic Text
	Unordered List
	Ordered List
	Add Hyperlink - link to URL Links can be used to incorporate web-based resources such as blog articles into a Moodle course.
	Unlink Removes links in the text area
	Prevent Auto link Stops the auto linking function (the dotted underlines) in the text area.
	Add image Adding and editing images in the page.
	Add media Used for adding videos or sound files when not on youtube.
	Record audio Add a audio file that you record at the time of clicking, max 2 min.
	Record video Add a video that you record at the time of clicking, max 2 min.
	Manage embedded files
	HTML/code view
	View full screen
	Align left
	Align centre
	Align right
	Underline
	Strikethrough
	Subscript
	Superscript
	Font Colour To remove the background colour use Clear Formatting
	Background Colour To remove the background colour use Clear Formatting
	Increase indent
	Decrease indent
	Special character
	Insert Table
	Clear formatting
	Accessibility checker
	Screenreader helper Not Recommended to use
	Styles Not Recommended to use
	Generico Not Recommended to use