[LON-CAPA-users] instructor review of essay responses written in rich text

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi Doug,

> If a student answers an essayresponse question using Rich Text,  is   
> there any way for an instructor to view their answer in rich text as  
>  opposed to plain text with tags?

Currently, the instructor would need to switch his/her session to a  
LON-CAPA server running 2.10.1 or earlier.

In 2.11.0 the HTML tags included in an essayresponse submission when a  
student composes his/her response in the Rich Text Editor are encoded  
with HTML character entities (see bug 6694:  
http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6694 ).

The change made to line 410 in grades.pm rev 1.720 (line: 469 in the  
version grades.pm shipped with 2.11.0) to address bug 6694  
(specifically for essayresponse), i.e., replacement of:

&keywords_highlight($answer)

with

&keywords_highlight(&HTML::Entities::encode($answer, '"<>&'))

needs to be revisited, as it prevents the instructor viewing the  
student's response with the formatting included by the student.  I  
have added bug 6742 http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6742 and  
included you as a CC.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmills at illinois.edu>:

> Hi All,
>
> If a student answers an essayresponse question using Rich Text,  is   
> there any way for an instructor to view their answer in rich text as  
>  opposed to plain text with tags?  Doesn't appear to be anything in   
> the interface I'm looking at but not being an instructor I'm not   
> entirely aware of how many ways instructors have to review student   
> submissions. Thanks for pointers!
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Mills
> Director of Instructional Technologies
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Illinois
> dmills at illinois.edu<mailto:dmills at illinois.edu>
> (217) 244-5739