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A New Rich Text Editor is Coming

Canvas has a redesigned Rich Content Editor (RCE) which will replace the existing Rich Content Editor in December, 2020 (see Upcoming Canvas Changes).  The new RCE offers an improved user experience across Canvas tools.  For example, the toolbar includes a condensed, more intuitive look, menus are grouped by common icons and interactions, and generally, more editing area is displayed.  If you wish to preview the new RCE, it is available as a feature option that you can enable in your course now.  You do not have to use it, but you may like to become familiar with it or use it if the new features are beneficial to you.  Below are some of the improvements that will be available in the new Rich Content Editor.

About the New Rich Content Editor

• The single-line toolbar includes a condensed, more intuitive look and menus are grouped by common icons and interactions with drop-down menus.

If the browser is not expanded to fit the full width of the toolbar, the toolbar displays an Options menu that includes the remaining toolbar items.

• The right-side content selector sidebar that was persistently displayed now only displays when needed if linking to other assets in your Canvas course.  This new content selector will appear when a “Course” source menu option is selected when embedding Links, Images, Media, or Documents.

• Files, images, and media can be uploaded using drag and drop.

• The Keyboard shortcut, Accessibility Checker, and HTML Editor icons have moved to the bottom of the editor next to the word count and the window can be resized using the Move handle.

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