The Moodle editor

The editor is central to any user experience in Moodle since it is used throughout the site for a wide range of operations. This includes posting in forums (learner), providing feedback to submissions (teacher), and editing content (editing teacher). You, as the administrator, should ensure that the editor is configured in a way that facilitates your users' requirements.

Moodle's default editor is called Atto, which has been developed by Moodle for Moodle. Atto has been designed to work with responsible themes, support left-to-right as well as right-to-left strings, provide accessibility support, and is fully configurable.

Prior to Moodle 2.7. the TinyMCE editor was used, which is still supported. We will not deal with TinyMCE since it is expected that this editor will be phased out over future releases. Additionally, Moodle contains a built-in plain text editor that has been implemented to enter any text that does not require formatting, for instance, source code.

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