Moodle Help & Support 

 

This refers to Moodle 4.1 from December 2023 onwards

Page and Label editing toolbar icons explained (also works in Forums and anywhere else there's a text box)

Where there is a text box requiring content (to be seen by students) to be entered there are two rows of editing icons, known as the formatting toolbars. This is the Atto editor.  These are similar to the toolbars in Word, albeit smaller.  The functionality in these toolbars allows you to add media such as videos, images, audio; create tables; format text; add text URLs and upload documents from your desktop.  This help document will tell you what each does, there are further help documents to tell you how to use them.

Only the first line of editing options will show by default. To see the full range of editing options, click on the Toolbar Toggle which is highlighted in red below.

Editing toolbar 1

Top line of Moodle editing toolbar with arrow highlighted

From left to right:

  • Accessibility checker
  • Screen reader helper
  • Paragraph styles
  • Pre-formatted styles
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Font colour
  • Unordered list / Bullet points
  • Ordered list / Numbering
  • Link - Add hyperlink
  • Unlink - Remove hyperlink
  • Show / hide more buttons - you will need to click on this to extend the toolbar for additional options to appear

Editing toolbar 2

Please note: You will need to click on the 'Show more buttons' button in the top line of the Atto editor for this line to options to be become available.

Second line of Moodle editing toolbar

From left to right:

  • Insert or edit image
  • Manage files
  • Embed Kaltura Media - This is to add a video from MediaSpace
  • Echo360 Plugin
  • Insert H5P
  • Underline
  • Strike through
  • Subscript
  • Superscript
  • Left align
  • Centre
  • Right align
  • Outdent
  • Indent

Editing toolbar 3

Please note: You will need to click on the 'Show more buttons' button in the top line of the Atto editor for this line to options to be become available.

Third line of Moodle editing toolbar

From left to right:

  • Equation editor
  • Insert character
  • Table
  • Clear formatting
  • Emoji picker
  • Undo
  • Redo
  • HTML
  • Toggle full screen

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