Art Lader

Hi Pete,

Paul Lewis is a librarian with some Moodle experience:

Paul H. Lewis, WebAdmin
USC Aiken Library
471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC 29801
803–641–3465

http://library.usca.edu/index.php/Forms/AskALibrarian 

> I'm sure it's something to do with the way
> I configured the site when I installed moodle.

Maybe so, but if the install went well you accepted the defaults, GIFT seems to be the culprit, right?

You may have simply found a little bug and done everyone a favor by calling attention to it. Well, at least math people who want to use the GIFT utility, but that must be a great many Moodlers!

I see that Scott Elliot has already replied to you. He is not only an expert Moodler but is also a math guy. I think you are in good hands now.

-- Art

 

> we might need to dig into the gift format
> and question rendering code

I suspect that you are right about that, Scott.

-- Art

 

Hi, John,

I was looking at the help file about the gift format and saw this:

Specify text-formatting for the question
The question text (only) may have an optional text format specified. Currently the available formats are moodle (Moodle Auto-Format), html (HTML format), plain (Plain text format) and markdown (Markdown format). The format is specified in square brackets immediately before the question text.

[markdown]The *American holiday of Thanksgiving* is celebrated on the {
         ~second
         ~third
         =fourth
     } Thursday of November. 

Hmmm, this assignment form is great! I am loving that I can quickly and easily give for each item.

But I am using it a lot now in a course I am creating for this coming school year and am wondering if there is a way to get it to back up, after all.

-- Art