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

[Mills, Douglas G]

Thank you Stuart.  Is switching a session to a server running an earlier
version easily done?  We've never actually tried that. Thanks,

Doug

Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technologies
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
dmills at illinois.edu
(217) 244-5739







On 9/10/14, 9:41 AM, "Stuart Raeburn" <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

>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
>
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