{"id":67939,"date":"2019-08-14T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67939"},"modified":"2019-08-14T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T13:00:57","slug":"some-basic-html-tips-for-when-your-lms-makes-you-nuts-andersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/08\/14\/some-basic-html-tips-for-when-your-lms-makes-you-nuts-andersen\/","title":{"rendered":"Some basic HTML tips for when your LMS makes you nuts [Andersen]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/busynessgirl.com\/some-basic-html-tips-when-your-lms-makes-you-nuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Some basic HTML tips for when your LMS makes you nuts<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from busynessgirl.com by Maria Andersen<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language; it is the computer code of web pages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Many editors in blogs, wikis, online learning systems like Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle, and Blackboard have WYSIWYG editors. WYSIWYG stands for \u201cwhat you see is what you get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Most digital editors have an icon panel at the top with standard formatting tools. The location of the tools varies slightly from platform to platform <em>(a few examples from common Learning Management Systems, or LMS\u2019s, are below).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/busynessgirl.com\/some-basic-html-tips-when-your-lms-makes-you-nuts\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67940\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/location-of-HTML-in-LMSs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/location-of-HTML-in-LMSs.png 800w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/location-of-HTML-in-LMSs-150x105.png 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/location-of-HTML-in-LMSs-768x536.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In most online editors, there is an option to switch back and forth from WYSIWYG to HTML. When you are trying to get a page to look just right and it\u2019s not behaving, you might need to go make a few simple tweaks to the HTML. Just knowing that there is HTML code behind each page, and the basics of how it works will be helpful to figuring out why formatting is not \u201csticking\u201d properly in the WYSIWYG editor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You can go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practiceboard.com\/\">PracticeBoard<\/a>\u00a0to practice some of the HTML in this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some basic HTML tips for when your LMS makes you nuts &#8212; from busynessgirl.com by Maria Andersen Excerpt: HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language; it is the computer code of web pages. Many editors in blogs, wikis, online learning systems like Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle, and Blackboard have WYSIWYG editors. WYSIWYG stands for \u201cwhat you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,115,302,286,32,71,3,119,46,825,309,196,89,50,195,214,312,186,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-tools","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-user-interface-design","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67943,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67939\/revisions\/67943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}