Incorrect Answers & Quiz Feedback Hard to See

Incorrect Answers & Quiz Feedback Hard to See

by Deb Burdick-Hinton -
Number of replies: 5

It is so hard to tell if a questions is incorrect and the word "incorrect" shows up in the same text color. You have to look really carefully to see if you got 0/2 pts for a question.  The feeback also shows up in the same color as well and it most students do not even realize there is feedback as it looks like a continuation of the multiple choice question sentence.

What is the deal?  I am certain this was not the case in the previous version?

Any work around for this as it will require a lot more time on my part telling students where to find things.

Can I code feedback so it shows up in a different color and/or font size?

Thanks for your input - this is driving me crazy and it is a short trip smile

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Re: Incorrect Answers & Quiz Feedback Hard to See

by Andrew Walker -
Hello,

You should be able to control these by editing the CSS for your theme. Inside the folder for your chosen theme (moodle_directory/theme/theme_name) there will likely* be a file named styles_color.css. edit this to add the following to the bottom of the file,

.feedbacktext {

    color: #ff00ff;

}


this should make the feedback text turn bright pink (technically I think the colour #ff00ff is called fuchsia wink). if bright pink isn't your thing you can replace the #ff00ff with any other colour - this page has a helpful guide to colour codes - http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/

you might also want to do a search through the css files in the theme to look for the text .feedbacktext - just to make sure that the theme isn't already setting styles for the text.

*if the directory for your theme doesn't contain a file named styles_color.css, you should just be able to choose any file in the directory that has a .css extension and make the edit in there.
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Re: Incorrect Answers & Quiz Feedback Hard to See

by Peter Ruthven-Stuart -
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Andrew,

I have a similar problem with adding some colour to the feedback text in quizzes. I did a search for 'feedbacktext', and found your reply. Most of the other messages concerned older version of Moodle where the change was made in the styles.php file.

However, I have tried doing what you suggested: adding this code

.feedbacktext {
  color: #ff6600;
}

to styles_color.css (in the 'standard' theme directory), but no luck. I've also tried adding the same code to 'styles_fonts.css' (in the 'standard' theme directory). I also found a reference to '.feedbacktext' in the 'styles_layout.css' (in the 'standard' theme directory):

/***
*** Modules: Quiz
***/

.feedbacktext {
display:block;
text-align:right;
}

which I changed to:

/***
 *** Modules: Quiz
 ***/

.feedbacktext {
  display:block;
  text-align:right;
  color:#ff6600;
}

However, the colour of the feedback has not yet been effected - it remains black.

Any suggestions you have will be most welcome.

I am using Moodle 1.5.2
and the standardblue theme, which refers to the 'standard' theme for all style sheets except 'gradients.css'.

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Re: Incorrect Answers & Quiz Feedback Hard to See

by fabrice NOELANT -

up.

I got the same pb.

The only way i founded to get a better feedback was to code HTML in the feedback.

That is not a good way to do it, just acceptble for me cause i have only one Quiz ...

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Re: Incorrect Answers & Quiz Feedback Hard to See

by Andrew Walker -
Hi,

if you're working in internet explorer try doing a "forced refresh" (ctrl + refresh) - internet explorer is quite keen on using cached css files, the forced refresh should make sure you're getting the latest version from the server.

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Re: Incorrect Answers & Quiz Feedback Hard to See

by Karrie V -
I've been having the same problem will try the fix smile
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