During the summer upgrade from Moodle 4.1 to Moodle 4.5, Moodle's text editor changed from Atto to TinyMCE editor.

TinyMCE editor offers users a space to create formatted content within a user-friendly interface. TinyMCE editor is organised into different tabs:

  1. Edit

    Edit menu dropdown
    • Undo/Redo
    • Cut
    • Copy, Paste/Paste as text
    • Select all/Find and replace
  2. View

    View menu dropdown
    • Source Code
    • Visual aids
    • Show individual characters
    • Show paragraph styles
    • Fullscreen
  3. Insert

    Insert menu dropdown
  4. Format

    Format features highlighted
    • Bold
    • Italic
    • Text foreground colour
    • Text background colour
    • Paragraph alignment
  5. Toolstools menu dropdown
  6. Table

    table menu dropdown
    • Cell
    • Row
    • Column
TinyMCE toolbar ⋯  also offers quick access to certain buttons, such as:

Further Formatting Options
Further formatting options accessed through toolbar
  1. Text direction
  2. Decrease and increase indent
  3. Bullet list and numbered list
  4. Equation editor
Adding media

Adding media accessed through toolbar

  1. Add an image
  2. Add a video
  3. Record audio
  4. Record video menu
  5. Component for Learning (C4L article)
  6. Insert H5P content 
  7. Add a hyperlink
  8. Remove a hyperlink 
More Options
More options

  1. Undo and redo
  2. Fullscreen
  3. Import Word file

Gif displaying the list of different tabs and tools available within tinymce editor