This information applies only to the Ultra Course View.

This information applies only to the Ultra experience.

Converting fonts and styles in the Rich Content Editor 

When you convert a course from Original Course View to Ultra Course View, font colors, sizes, families are streamlined to a curated set of options. This retains your choices made in your Original Course while also maintaining accessibility in your Ultra course. For example, the unlimited options for font color in Original meant that many color choices are not accessible to some users. The conversion process to Ultra ensures both accessibility and a variety of options in the Rich Content Editor.

Converting font colors from Original to Ultra 

Ultra Course View has a curated set of text colors to ensure readability: black, gray, purple, blue, and green. During conversion, we remove unsupported text colors. This text becomes black. We remove unsupported text colors during conversion from:

  • Announcements 
  • Discussions 
  • Assignments 
  • Documents 
  • Journals 
  • Groups and Group Sets 
  • Tests and Question Types

Converting text size from Original to Ultra   

Ultra Course View has a curated set of text sizes to ensure consistency and reduce cleanup during conversion. During the conversion process, we preserve many text sizes and convert others to a similar size according to the logic in the table below.

Table shows text size conversions from Original Course View to Ultra Course View
If text size in Original Course View equals Text size is set in Ultra Course View to 
10 or less pixels  

10 pixels

11 or 12 pixels  

12 pixels

between 13 and 16 pixels

14 pixels

between 17 and 21 pixels

18 pixels

between 22 and 30 pixels

24 pixels

between 31 and 42 pixels

36 pixels

43 or more pixels

48 pixels

Sizes are preserved when converting text associated with the following items:

  • Announcements 
  • Discussions 
  • Assignments 
  • Documents 
  • Journals 
  • Groups and Group Sets 
  • Tests and Question Types

Converting font families 

Ultra Course View has a curated set of font families to ensure consistency and reduce cleanup during conversion. During the conversion process, we preserve many font families and convert others according to the logic in the table below.  

Table shows font family conversions from Original Course View to Ultra Course View
Font family in Original Course View Set font in Ultra Course View
Arial

Arial

Comic Sans MS

Comic Sans MS

Courier New

Courier New

Times New Roman

Times New Roman

Verdana

Verdana

All other font families

Open Sans

Font families are preserved when converting text associated with the following items: 

  • Announcements 
  • Discussions 
  • Assignments 
  • Documents 
  • Journals 
  • Groups and Group Sets 
  • Tests and Question Types