How can we type in Spanish in canvas (without spellcheck underlining every word)?

[kassandrac]

My foreign language instructors want their students to be able to write in Spanish. Right now if they use the rich content editor, spellcheck underlines every word it doesn't recognize, which is most of them. Is there a way to either change the rich content editor to recognize Spanish text or some type of tool that can be used in Canvas - something like the math editor or another app? 

I tried changing the language of the course in course settings and that changed canvas but it did not change the rich content editor to recognize spanish. So, then I added a new "person" in chrome and changed the language to spanish. I then went back into canvas to see if the rich content editor changed also. It worked some but it still didn't recognize many of the words. 

I appreciate any ideas!

Thanks!

Kassandra

[abunag]

Hi Kassandra,

If you're talking about through a browser such as Chrome, that's likely being done by the browser, not Canvas.  Here's a guide showing how to access these settings, where you can likely change it to Spanish: How do I enable spell check in my browser? – Knowledge Base 

[kassandrac]

I appreciate this information! I'm looking for something that all students could use on a regular basis and I don't know how comfortable they'd be changing the settings on their browser every time they wanted to contribute in this course (and then they'd have to change it back every time also). 

If anyone knows of other resources for the foreign language classes, please let me know! Thanks!

[bdalton_sales]

Kassandra

The instructions above will work but if you enable spell checking for more than one language it will check for all simultaneously for Chrome at least.  The article below explains how to set it up in Chrome and what some of the issue might be.

https://www.ghacks.net/2015/12/10/google-changes-multi-language-spell-checking-options-in-chrome/  

[kassandrac]

This is super! Thank you Brett!

[shero]

Hi - my faculty and students in their courses actually change their keyboards to Spanish, to avoid typed words appearing as needing spellcheck.  Canvas does recognize Spanish when it's typed using a Spanish keyboard.  See the link below on how to switch on a PC and MAC:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/258824/how-to-change-your-keyboard-layout 

OS X Yosemite: Use input sources to type in other languages 

Hope this helps!