[Building Sakai] CKEditor & Spelling correction.

Steve Swinsburg steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 15:55:17 PDT 2013


What is the editor that your Moodle environment uses, can you send a screenshot?

Gesendent von meinem iPhone

On 13/03/2013, at 4:17, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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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