Content Editor

From e-Learning Documentation

Throughout Sakai, you will see the "Content Editor."

When you use the Content Editor, you are creating HTML that is viewed in Sakai without students needing to open a MS Word document, a PDF document or other type of file. This type of Content Editor is called a WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, which means that you can create HTML without knowing any HTML coding. You use the icons at the top of the screen to format your content and the Editor automatically inserts the HTML code in the background. If you are comfortable creating an MS Word document, you should experience little difficulty in using the Content Editor.

Where can you find the Content Editor?

• Resources
  • Within a folder, click Add and then click Create HTML Page. Be aware that if you insert an image or link to other files in Resources using this Content Editor, the links will be broken when you import the content into future semesters unless you use relative linking. The links will look fine to the instructor, but students cannot access them.
• Home
  • Click Options. Here again, if you insert an image or link to other files in Resources using this Content Editor, the links will be broken when you import the content into future semesters. Relative Linking is not an option in this Content Editor.
• Lessons
  • When adding Content Items, one option is to "Create an HTML Page" which opens the editor. If you insert an image using this Content Editor, the links will copy from one semester to the next with no problems because the Lessons tool actually imports those files into the Lessons tool inventory.
• Syllabus, all Communication tools, Assignments and Tests & Quizzes tools provide a Content Editor for formatting text. Here again, if you insert an image or link to other files in Resources using this Content Editor, the links will be broken when you import the content into future semesters. Relative Linking is not an option in this Content Editor.
• Assessments tool also provides a Content Editor for the Question Text. Images inserted into the question text using this Content Editor copy fine from one semester to the next because the Assessments tool actually copies those files into its own file manager. Note:You can copy text from a MS Word document into the Content Editor to quickly convert MS Word to HTML. Make sure you use the "Paste from Word" icon to preserve formatting and remove coding text.

Note: For advanced users that are using HTML, please see Unsupported Tags