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Getting the most out of the WYSIWYG editor            « Back

The WYSIWYG (stands for What You See Is What You Get) is a very powerful tool within the Coursebuilder system.  It allows you to customise your text to and add pictures to best display your intended message.

Here is a quick walking tour of the controls of your WYSIWYG editor.

HTML – If you have HTML coding skills, you can view and modify the HTML code that your inputs are generating.  This is a handy feature for advanced users.

– Select the text that you want to Bold and click on the B.

– Allows the user to Italicise text.

– Underline important words, phrases or titles.

– Aligns selected text to the left.

– Aligns selected text to the centre.

– Aligns selected text to the right.

– Justifies the selected text.

– This allows the user to easily create subscript if necessary.

– This allows the user to create superscript.

– Add special symbols or characters.

– This will add bullet points to the selected text.

– Add a hyperlink to another site:

• You must first type in the link’s URL (You can copy/paste it from the web).
• You can set the link to open in a new window or in the same window, give the link a Title and choose a Class - how you want the text to display.
• To remove a hyperlink, highlight the text and select the ‘Unlink’ button. 

– Add a Picture to your text:

• Select ‘Browse’ and find the image to upload from your local computer.
• Select the Size you want the image to appear in your text.  Coursebuilder is smart and will resize the image to the size selected.
• Give your image a Title and select how you want the image aligned (Left, Right or Not Aligned). Then select ‘Insert’.

Styles Dropdown:
Here you can highlight text and make it STANDOUT.  First, highlight the text you want to emphasise.  Next, select a Style from the dropdown list.  It’s as easy as that!

– To remove a Style, highlight the text and select the Remove Formatting button.

29 November 2006