diff --git a/client/config/prod.env.js b/client/config/prod.env.js
index 8e155e54..309f2528 100644
--- a/client/config/prod.env.js
+++ b/client/config/prod.env.js
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ module.exports = {
   */
   VUE_APP_LOGO: JSON.stringify(process.env.VUE_APP_LOGO) || '"/static/logo.png"',
   VUE_APP_ENABLE_PORTFOLIO: process.env.ENABLE_PORTFOLIO || "true",
+  VUE_APP_ENABLE_SPELLCHECK: !!process.env.TASKBASE_BASEURL,
   /*
    * Vars used in HTML templates don't need to be stringyfied, as HTML does not need them to have quotes
    */
diff --git a/client/src/components/content-blocks/assignment/SubmissionForm.vue b/client/src/components/content-blocks/assignment/SubmissionForm.vue
index 5d61ad8c..90ff82a5 100644
--- a/client/src/components/content-blocks/assignment/SubmissionForm.vue
+++ b/client/src/components/content-blocks/assignment/SubmissionForm.vue
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
       </button>
       <button
         class="submission-form-container__submit submission-form-container__spellcheck button button--primary button--white-bg"
-        v-if="spellcheck"
+        v-if="showSpellcheckButton"
         @click="$emit('spellcheck')"
       >{{ spellcheckText }}
       </button>
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@
       allowsDocuments() {
         return 'document' in this.userInput;
       },
+      showSpellcheckButton() {
+        console.log(process.env.VUE_APP_ENABLE_SPELLCHECK);
+        return this.spellcheck && process.env.VUE_APP_ENABLE_SPELLCHECK;
+      },
       spellcheckText() {
         if (!this.spellcheckLoading) {
           return 'Rechtschreibung prüfen';
diff --git a/server/core/settings.py b/server/core/settings.py
index 586e4133..1abf03fe 100644
--- a/server/core/settings.py
+++ b/server/core/settings.py
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ TASKBASE_PASSWORD = os.environ.get("TASKBASE_PASSWORD")
 TASKBASE_SUPERUSER = os.environ.get("TASKBASE_SUPERUSER")
 TASKBASE_SUPERPASSWORD = os.environ.get("TASKBASE_SUPERPASSWORD")
 TASKBASE_BASEURL = os.environ.get("TASKBASE_BASEURL")
+ENABLE_SPELLCHECK = True if TASKBASE_BASEURL else False
 
 
 TEST_RUNNER = 'xmlrunner.extra.djangotestrunner.XMLTestRunner'