Improvements: Advanced image editing in the HTML editor

This feature updates the HTML Editor to include expanded image editing capabilities. Users can now edit images in place (including flipping, rotating, and adjusting brightness, sharpness, and color), edit the image description, and edit the size of the image. They can save image edits to Manage Files.

Advanced image editing screen in the HTML Editor

Image editing provides the ability to customize image description and sizing

Manually resize the image in the image editor

This update is currently exclusive to creating discussion posts, announcements, and content topics.

Improvements to the HTML Editor in BOLT

Do you use the Create a File feature in Content, post Announcements, or use the Discussions tool in BOLT? If you do, you may notice some improvements to the HTML editor used in all these places.

 

• Unsaved Changes Prompt
• Preserved Formatting from Microsoft Word

 

Unsaved Changes Prompt

If you are working on a file, and you try to navigate away from the page without saving, your browser will display a prompt to let you know that you have unsaved changes and give you the choice to leave or stay on the page to save your file.




New Unsaved Changes Prompt for the HTML Editor

 

Preserved Formatting from Microsoft Word

When you copy and paste from Word, the formatting in the Word document will be preserved when you paste into the HTML editor. Images pasted from Word will save to your course files in Manage Files.




New Preserved formatting in HTML Editor when pasting from Microsoft Word

New: Quicklink to an Announcement

Do you want to call students’ attention directly to one of your announcements?


Would you like to email your Classlist and include a direct link to your announcements? Do you have an html content item about an assignment you’d like to add a link to a related announcement to?

You now have the ability to link to an announcement in the HTML editor using the Insert Quicklink button. It simplifies the process of referencing announcements and bringing them to the attention of learners.

Updates to Discussions, Content, and the HTML Editor

With the update to 10.5.7 on March 18th, several tools will see improvements.

Discussions

Previously, when navigating using the browser's back button from within a discussion thread, previously set filters would not be remembered so you would have to navigate again to find the relevant discussion thread.

Now, when navigating using the browser's back button from within a discussion thread, previously set filters at the topic level are remembered so you don't lose your place.

Content

Status Change Indicator

Previously, when the status of a content topic was changed from draft to published or vice versa, the visual indicator did not update immediately in all cases for the user who was making the changes, even though it updated for the users the content applied to.

Now, when the status of a content topic is changed between draft and published, the visual display updates immediately for the user applying the change.

No Broken Links from Opening PDFs

Previously, when you opened a PDF file in Content, a broken link error was generated. 

Now, when you open a PDF file in Content, a broken link error is not generated.

HTML Editor

Font Display

Previously, when you changed the font or font family of text in the HTML Editor, the fonts were not displayed accurately.

Now, when you change the font or font family of text in the HTML Editor, the fonts are recognized accurately and display properly.

Paste Button

Previously, on the Edit HTML File page, clicking the paste button displayed an error message stating that the browser doesn't support paste.

The paste button has since been removed from the HTML Editor so the error message no longer displays.