Content Editor

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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.

Contents 1 Where can you find the Content Editor? 2 Inserting Video using the Content Editor 2.1 YouTube 2.1.1 How to find the old embed code 2.1.2 Pasting the code into a course

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
  • 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
  • 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

Inserting Video using the Content Editor

YouTube

The way to insert YouTube videos in the content editor has changed. YouTube's new <iframe> embed code is not compatible with e-Learning in Sakai. If you want a video to play within your course, you will need to use the YouTube’s old <object> code.

How to find the old embed code

1. On the YouTube video's page, click the Embed button.
   
2. In the options, make sure that you put a check mark next to both "Use old embed code" and "Use HTTPS".
3. Copy the selected embed code.

Pasting the code into a course

1. In your course, place your cursor in the content editor where you want the video to appear. If this is after a paragraph of text, make another line.
2. Important: Click the Source button
3. Now, paste in the selected text and save. (If you do not click source before pasting, the embed code text will show instead of the video.)
4. Important: If you edit this item after saving it, you will have to re-paste the embed code.