About Moodle Editor

About Moodle Editor

by Sorie Fasuluku -
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Dear All

First let me thank you for this platform for many reasons. Next, the issue about Moodle Editor with me is that I need to color and make my text larger so that I can project it for students to see in a large class like I do in PowerPoint; but I am limited. I did a litter research and I discovered one named 'HTML Source Editor' on a video I was watching. See attachment. Now I am searching for this plugin with your help. Even as I text these note this, these facility of coloring and extra large text are not present in this editor. I am relatively new to moodle, so I keep on knowing where possible.

Looking forward. Thanks again.

Sorie.

Attachment html source editor.jpg
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Re: About Moodle Editor

by AL Rachels -
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Hi Sorie,

You can add color, fonts, and font size plugins to the Atto editor. Go to the Moodle downloads page and search for, font. The first three items that show up, More font colors, Font size, and Font family are the ones you want to download and install. Just a note: I find that when I want to use these, for me it works best to do all my typing, then select any text I want to change and then click the color, size, or font name to change the selection.

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Re: About Moodle Editor

by Sorie Fasuluku -
Hi. AL.
First thanks for the concern. So far I have downloaded the plugins. Truly I find it unable to install them even after some attempts not becuause of the plugins but due to lack of the skills to do so. Do, I am a beginner as I said, kindly help me where possible.
Thanks.
Sorie.
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Re: About Moodle Editor

by AL Rachels -
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Hi Sorie,

First, it will save time and effort in the future, if you include some details about your setup. Which version of Moodle are you using? Can you log in as admin? Is your site registered?

  • More Font Colours - If your Moodle is fairly recent, you can log in as admin, and your site is registered, just go to the download page for the font and click on the, Install now, button. On the new page click the link for, Install now, next to the name of your site. You will be taken to your site with a notice showing, Install plugins from the Moodle plugins directory. Just follow through the prompts and Moodle will do everything for you.
  • Alternate method - Download the plugins. Log into your Moodle as admin. Got to Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins. Using Windows explorer, drag and drop a plugin zip file into file area, and click the, Install plugin from the zip file. Follow the prompts.
Once you have the plugins installed in Moodle, got to Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Atto HTML editor. Scroll down until you see the new plugins listed, Font color, Font family, and Font size. Look two columns to the right, in the, Toolbar config, column, and make note of the lowercase, no space, listed names for each. Scroll down to the text area for, Toolbar config. You will need to add the names noted, to one of the groupings, such as style1, like I have in the included photo. Once you do that, the toolbuttons should show up and be available for use by anyone on your site, that uses the Atto editor.


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