DesignPLUS Language Accents

Use this tool to insert language accent characters into the Canvas editor, insert a Word/Phrase, Paragraph, or Block of text that is tagged as being written in a specific language, and make the language accents tool available to students.

Visit DesignPLUS User Guide: Language Accents to learn how to:

  • Open the Language Accents tool

  • Adding an accent character to content

  • Make the Language Accents tool available to students

  • Create tagged content for assistive technologies

  • Requesting a new language

The Language Accents tool currently includes characters for the following languages:

  • French
  • Chinese Pinyin
  • German
  • Greek (Ancient)
  • Hawaiian
  • Hiragana
  • Italian
  • Latin
  • Old English
  • International Phonetic Alphabet
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish