{"id":647,"date":"2013-07-15T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/?p=647"},"modified":"2013-07-15T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:33:05","slug":"ilearn-moodle-text-editor-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/2013\/07\/15\/ilearn-moodle-text-editor-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"iLearn (moodle) Text Editor Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have recently updated iLearn to include a nice enhancement to the text editor. \u00a0The text editor is what appears for teachers when they are updating or adding text to an activity or other element of their iLearn course. \u00a0As seen in the image below we have hidden most of the &#8220;unused or seldomly used&#8221; icons from view. \u00a0This will help declutter the user interface and only provide the most used features of the text editor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2013\/07\/BPM2EB6CEAEUxLZ.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-649\" alt=\"Moodle Text Editor Enhancement\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2013\/07\/BPM2EB6CEAEUxLZ.png\" width=\"618\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2013\/07\/BPM2EB6CEAEUxLZ.png 618w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2013\/07\/BPM2EB6CEAEUxLZ-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->Here is how we did it for other Moodle Server Admins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw this tweet from Michael de Raadt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/salvetore\/status\/356688238347423747\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/salvetore\/status\/356688238347423747<\/a>\u00a0which shows how you can setup a &#8220;toggle&#8221; for the text editor. I really liked it and set out to add this to my Moodle setup.<\/p>\n<p>Basically this allows you to strip down the initial buttons and then allow the user to click on the toggle to display the other items. It de-clutters the text editor screen.<\/p>\n<p>To do this I found this posting which has a PDW download attached to a post. Download that and follow the instructions to upload to your moodle. Add the changes to the lib.php file as described in this forum post and you should start seeing the new toggle button in your text editor.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/discuss.php?d=224425\">https:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/discuss.php?d=224425<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you can go into your Site admin settings and under Plugins &gt; Text Editors &gt; TinyMCE &gt; General Settings you can change the ordering of the buttons.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I used:<\/p>\n<p>pdw_toggle,|,formatselect,|,bold,italic,|,bullist,numlist,|,link,unlink,moodlenolink,|,image,moodlemedia,|,code,spellchecker<\/p>\n<p>justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,|,outdent,indent,|,underline,strikethrough,sub,sup,|,cleanup,removeformat,pastetext,pasteword,|,undo,redo,|,table<\/p>\n<p>fontselect,fontsizeselect,|,forecolor,backcolor,|,dragmath,|,rtl,ltr,|,search,replace,nonbreaking,charmap,|,fullscreen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have recently updated iLearn to include a nice enhancement to the text editor. \u00a0The text editor is what appears for teachers when they are updating or adding text to an activity or other element of their iLearn course. \u00a0As seen in the image below we have hidden most of the &#8220;unused or seldomly used&#8221; &#8230; <a title=\"iLearn (moodle) Text Editor Improvements\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/2013\/07\/15\/ilearn-moodle-text-editor-improvements\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about iLearn (moodle) Text Editor Improvements\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-category","tag-ilearn-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}