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Overview
It is possible to change your text editor preferences to suit your needs! Moodle supports these different options for text editors:
- TinyMCE (default)
- Atto (pre-2025 default)
- Marklar
- Plain Text
Text Editor Types
TinyMCE
TinyMCE is a robust web-based text editor used by many, many sites. It became the new default text editor for us at Carleton when we updated to Moodle 4.4 for Winter 2025 term. You can learn more about all of the features available in TinyMCE in our Text Editor Knowledge Base article.
Atto
Atto was the default text editor prior to our update to Moodle 4.4. If you find that there are things you can no longer do with TinyMCE, you may want to switch your preferences to use Atto until TinyMCE can support those functions. It is no longer developed, therefore you may notice some buttons no longer work correctly. Due to the lack of development it will eventually be removed from Moodle.
Marklar
Marklar directly supports markdown and is provided as an optional by Moodle HQ. It is simple, but may be preferred by those who generally type in markdown anyway. Please see the Features section of the documentation to learn about what Marklar can and cannot do.
Plain text
Nothing more, nothing less.
How to change your text editor preferences in Moodle
- Click your profile picture or icon in the upper right corner of your Moodle window.
- Click Preferences
- Click on Editor Preferences
- Choose your preferred text editor from the pull down menu and save.
Questions?
Submit a Moodle Support ticket.
Acknowledgement
Created by Carly Born and last updated by Em Palencia 01/02/2025.