[Building Sakai] CKEditor & Spelling correction.

Gregory Guthrie guthrie at mum.edu
Tue Mar 12 10:17:30 PDT 2013


I wanted to again give a virtual "vote" for a spelling correction system in the forum & content editor, currently CKEditor.
[SAK-23280 add spelling correction options to content editor]

Currently a user sees spelling errors as typing (from the browser I presume?), but the standard windows option of right-click suggestions/corrections does not work. This doesn't conform to general Windows or UI standards, and thus surprises those users, since that is a general norm.
	
While it is true that CKE does support plugins for ad-supported spell-while you type, the non-ad version is $3500/year - pretty expensive for a basic feature like this. Perhaps big schools don't much mind or notice such costs, but for smaller users it is significant.
	
I'd also note that our Moodle users, who of course were reluctant to convert, have a better editor with this feature for free in the community version - makes it harder to compete!  :-)

If there are other good options, I'd love to learn of them.
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