Is it possible to include a link, within the feedback to a question, to a file containing the solution to a question, .
eg The feedback may look like
"Sorry, this is incorrect, the solution to this question can be viewed by clicking here"
Yes, you can use arbitrary html in the feedback, so you could write "Sorry, this is incorrect, the solution to this question can be viewed by <a href="http://something">clicking here</a>" where you replace 'http://something' by the url of your solution. Only problem: if the solution is publicly accessible on the web then how do you make sure students don't look at it before trying the question?
Thanks Gustavfor your very speedy response. I have tried this method, but it displays the file address ie (href = "some url" ) as a choice within a MCQ question.
I am directing the student to a txt file instead of a html file, would this cause a problem?
I did not describe exactly what i am trying to achieve. I hope to have a text file for each quetion. These text files will be stored in the quiz folder of my moodle module (I think thats what its referred to as - I'm new to Moodel). The link I referred to will direct the student to that text file. The questions and the text files will be created by a Visual Basic program and I will upload/import these to moodle.
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I found my problem. I didn't realise that the '=' in '<a =href ' was a control character and had to be preceeded with a '\'. Thanks again for your help.