Code Snippet - Content Editor Improvements - 3900.37

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Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors, Students

Supporting collaboration and assessment across diverse disciplines is important for students and instructors. This includes computing, logic, and math courses where participants discuss programming syntax. Now instructors and students can author and share computer code in the Content Editor using a new Code Snippet tool.

The Content Editor identifies eleven programming syntaxes:

  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Kotlin
  • R
  • PHP
  • Go
  • C
  • Swift
  • C#
  • HTML

Image 1. Code snippet is now featured as a choice from the Text option icon.

Code snippet is now featured as a choice from the Text option icon

The text style menu in the Content Editor has changed from text to an icon. This improves tool spacing for different screen sizes.

For instructors: This feature is included in the Content Editor in all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.


Watch a video about code snippets

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Video: Code snippets shows how to author and share computer code in the Content Editor using the new Code Snippet tool.

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