Posted 01.19 ~ Canvas' New Rich Content Editor (RCE)

As of Tuesday, January 19th, Canvas' new Rich Content Editor (RCE) was activated across all Canvas systems
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Rich Content Editor layout and tools by groups

Rich Content Editor is used in features that support an editor (Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Quizzes, or Syllabus) and also supports embedding video content, math formulas, and other rich media.

The RCE includes a content area, menubar, and toolbar. 

  1. In the content area, you can add and preview the page content [1]
  2. In the menubar, you can use the menu options to format the page content [2]
  3. In the toolbar, you can format text [3]
  4. insert links, images, media, and documents [4]
  5. open external tools [5]
  6. format paragraphs [6]
  7. clear formatting [7]
  8. add tables [8]
  9. insert an equation [9]
  10. embed media [10]

NOTE: When content in a browser window is long enough to require a scroll bar, the toolbar is fixed at the top of the browser window.


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