Quiz

Hello Michelle,

With a screen image it's a lot clearer !

The problem is that you are creating your multichoice question inside a cloze (multianswer) question where options are rendered as a dropdown menu and in html it is not possible to have a subscript or a superscript inside a dropdown menu choice (I think this is in fact possible with some javascript but certainly not with plain html code).

In Moodle 2, I know it is possible to render the multichoice question inside a cloze question with choices as checkboxes or radio buttons (see MULTICHOICE_V and MULTICHOICE_H) but I don't remember if it's possible in Moodle 1.9. This would solve your problem as sup and sub tags are allowed in checkboxes and radio buttons labels.

Can someone still using Moodle 1.9 tell if this is possible in that version ?

Hi Michelle, if you had attached that screenshot to your original post it would have saved us a lot of time. It makes it clear that your problem is with MULTICHOICE sub-questions located within CLOZE questions in Moodle 1.9.6.

As Jean-Michel says, you cannot use <sub> or <sup> nor indeed any HTML tags within drop-down lists. There is however a simple solution: use unicode characters for your subscripts. See this Wikipedia article.

Here is what your question text might look like:

What is the formula for Amonia: {1:MULTICHOICE:H₂O~C₆H₁₂O₆~=NH₃}

I have attached a proof of concept screenshot (from Moodle 1.9.15, the current version of moodle 1.9).

Joseph