We are using 1.9.8+ and I have a professor who suddenly has an icon which appeared in only one of her quiz questions. How do I get rid of the hand art/icon? How did it appear in the question or what does it indicate?
Your professor must have typed something like:
Decisions about ethical situations often present a ( n )
without spaces between the parentheses and the letter n, of course...
which gives:
Decisions about ethical situations often present a
I can attest that putting an 'n' inside parentheses will result in the 'hands down' syndrome.....like this .... .
I merely add spaces between the parentheses and the n. It doesn't look quite as nice but the original intent is then shown.... ( n )
Thank you, Thank you. That cleared it up. Never would have figured that was the cause.
Your answer solved my problem. Thanks! A new day... something new learned. Success!
Hi, Bill.
My guess is that she copied and pasted and some of the code got mixed up somewhere so that whatever punctuation was surrounding the text where the thumb icon is created that icon in the HTML editor. (Joseph posed what that combo might have been while I was typing this.)
To edit it out, toggle <> or HTML for the HTML editor (pending your theme choices for turning off the editor in that window) so that you can remove the code (or show her how to do it because chances are this will happen to her again if she is using texts she wrote outside of Moodle and she will need to know how to fix it in the future).
This is my guess...Hope that is it as it is a really simple fix. Let us know.
Lesli,
Thanks! I appreciate the quick response. I would have never figured it out.
Note that you can change the list of what is subsituted by going to
Site administration ► Appearance ► HTML settings
I had this problem and that fixed it for me. Are there any plans to remove this default setting? It was embarrassing to have these popping up all over our tests. It took awhile to figure out what was going on and how to fix it. Putting in a quiz question is fairly common.
On that HTML settings page, you could remove ( n ) from the table of codes that will be automatically replaced by emoticons.
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Emoticon_images_2.0
I hoped it might be possible to stop the conversion by prefixing an escape character such as slash but, sadly, no. E.g. type / ( n ) without spaces, and you just get / .