Numerical questions do not accept commas

Numerical questions do not accept commas

by Marc Couture -
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Tested under Moodle 3.8.6, plugin version 3.9.0 (Build - 2020062300). 

If a student uses a period, no problem, his answer is accepted and recorded.  In the example below, three students that used a comma as a delimiter see that they answered the questionnaire, but those answers are NOT visible from the teacher's perspective, only three other responses using periods are shown:

6 answers sent, but only 3 show up

I've tried changing the course language to see if this would change anything, no dice.

How can I fix this? 

Thanks!

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Re: Numerical questions do not accept commas

by Joseph Rézeau -
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You are correct, the Questionnaire numeric question type only accepts the dot/fullstop character as decimal separator. This matter of different decimal separators often comes up on the Quiz (and Lesson) Moodle forums and causes no end of problems. How I wish the dot/full stop character were adopted as an international standard! It's already the de facto separator used on most calculators and computer numeric keyboards.
The only solution I can see in your situation is to instruct your questionnaire respondents to use the dot/full stop in their answer. By the way, I can't remember when the decision was taken to introduce decimals in that numeric question type in questionnaire. I expect it's rarely used if at all. I'm curious to find out what you need it for, if you don't mind telling us.wink
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Re: Numerical questions do not accept commas

by Marc Couture -
Hi Joseph, I met with the teacher who reported the problem. He was adapting his questionnaire to a rating scale used by his department, he wanted to use a 1 to 10 scale based on a 1 to 100 scale, so decimals were required to give, say, a 8.7 (or 87%) rating in the context of a peer evaluation.
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