Web browsers & Moodle

Attention: Safari users

If you are using Safari (or Chrome and Opera), which is the default web browser for Apple Macs and iOS devices then you may have noticed that you don’t get the same experience in Moodle when compared to using other web browsers such as Internet Explorer or Firefox.

When using Moodle with Safari, Chrome and Opera you do not get the graphical tools when composing content. This maybe when you’re using discussion forums, updating your profile, writing out quiz answers or, if you are staff, creating course content. This is a problem and sadly will be with us until we upgrade to Moodle 2.0 (September 2012 at the earliest). The image below will show the comparion.

Moodle and Safari

No editor available, hard to add content to Moodle.

Moodle and Firefox

Editor is available, much easier to add richer content into Moodle

Note

We understand the editor in Moodle isn’t exactly mindblowing with functionality, but it’s not that bad. It’s much, much harder to write up content, or indeed create a course, if you don’t know this existed.