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. These include 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 to facilitate 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 responsive themes, support left-to-right as well as right-to-left strings, provide accessibility support, and is fully configurable.

TinyMCE used to be Moodle’s standard editor, which is still supported but uses an outdated version. Moodle HQ has communicated the following text editor strategy: the latest version of TinyMCE will be incorporated into Moodle, and all Atto plugins will be ported across. Once this process has been completed, Atto is expected to be phased...