{"id":6710,"date":"2018-03-02T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:13:04","slug":"canvas-highlights-4-rich-content-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2018\/03\/02\/canvas-highlights-4-rich-content-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas highlights 4. Rich Content Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6708\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor.jpg\" alt=\"Canvas Highlights 4. Rich Content Editor\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/files\/2018\/02\/Canvas-Highlights-4-Rich-Content-Editor-900x506.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em\">[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this weeks &#8216;Canvas Highlights&#8217; we take a look at the Rich Content Editor. This represents the set of uniform tools which are available\u00a0across the Canvas system when creating and editing your content; from entering text to inserting graphics, maths equations, multimedia based content and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canvas Highlights - Rich Content Editor\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8b39os8xJ84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Typical of Canvas, a simple, but intuitive and efficient workflow required for a great user-experience is at the heart of the rich-content editor.<\/p>\n<p>Canvas includes all of the typical features of a rich-content-editor, such as the ability to add basic text-formatting, change font-size and colour, produce data tables, insert web-links, images and video content. It also includes a number of unique features for creating bespoke educational content.<\/p>\n<p>Notable features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Side menu for quick access to inserting web-links to existing files, images, activities and assignments in your module.<\/li>\n<li>Integration with Flickr repository. Search and insert creative commons licensed images from the Flickr repository without having to leave your Canvas module.<\/li>\n<li>Add audio-visual content by creating on-the-fly recordings directly from your microphone or web-cam.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that your content is readable, presentable and user friendly to all of your students with the in-built accessibility checker.<\/li>\n<li>Create maths equations using the graphic menu of symbols or by typing LaTeX into the editor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on the rich-content editor see also the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/community\/answers\/guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canvas community help pages<\/a>\u00a0for an in depth look at how to make the most out of this essential and powerful tool in your new VLE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology] In this weeks &#8216;Canvas Highlights&#8217; we take a look at the Rich Content Editor. This represents the set<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/2018\/03\/02\/canvas-highlights-4-rich-content-editor\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137836],"tags":[137836,156967,98328,7],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions\/7240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}