Feature Request: Spell checker

[Glenys Bradbury]

I think the addition of a spell checker to text entry boxes would really help people to ensure that their portfolio is error free, rather than cutting and pasting from another program which does has this feature.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

see also http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=2275

[Tim Fedak (tjfedak)]

I've had several faculty request this feature, as they are also using Mahara for their own life-long learning during our pilot. Faculty asking for it, not to improve the quality of student submission - but because they find it helpful themselves.

[Dominique-Alain JAN (dajan)]

Regarding Richard's answer in the forum :

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You can enable the tinymce spellchecker by adding 'spellchecker' to the list of tinymce plugins (lib/web.php around line 123), and adding 'spellchecker' into the lists of configured buttons in one of the lines following. For example, just replace this:

    plugins: "table,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,paste",
    theme_advanced_buttons1 : "{$adv_buttons[1]}",

with this:

    plugins: "table,emotions,spellchecker,inlinepopups,paste",
    theme_advanced_buttons1 : "{$adv_buttons[1]},spellchecker",
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But I think this feature should be activated by default in the Mahara release to simplify administrator's life and avoid some drawbacks whenever Mahara is upgraded on the production server.

[Andrew Nicols (dobedobedoh)]

Fix hasn't been released yet