Moodle

Let the teacher choose whether the Essay question type uses the HTML editor

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.7
  • Fix Version/s: 2.1
  • Component/s: Questions
  • Labels:
    None
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_17_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_21_STABLE

Description

WebCT has a "paragraph" question type which allows free-form text input - a similar functionality to the Moodle "essay" type - though focused more on fairly short answers. Students enter their answers in a text box not through an HTML editor. I find this has two beneficial effects:

1) Students don't waste their time on fancy formatting;
2) The (configurable) size of the text box is an effective hint at the expected answer length.

Any chance of extending the essay type to allow this as an option?

Issue Links

This issue will be resolved by:
MDL-20636 META: Question engine re-write Blocker Closed

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Tim Hunt added a comment -

Option to set text area size is MDL-6535.

Letting the teacher choose whether to use the HTML editor is a reasonable idea, but I am unlikely to have time to implement it. Patches welcome.

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Tim Hunt added a comment - Option to set text area size is MDL-6535. Letting the teacher choose whether to use the HTML editor is a reasonable idea, but I am unlikely to have time to implement it. Patches welcome.
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Mauno Korpelainen added a comment -

In TinyMCE it is possible to use "ask-mode", "mode-toggle-buttons" or different init code for different css (id, class or name of element) but you may need to wait some time to get TinyMCE "officially integrated" to moodle.

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Mauno Korpelainen added a comment - In TinyMCE it is possible to use "ask-mode", "mode-toggle-buttons" or different init code for different css (id, class or name of element) but you may need to wait some time to get TinyMCE "officially integrated" to moodle.
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Tim Hunt added a comment -

Hmm. it may actually be better to create a separate question type for manually graded code/plain text questions, rather than adding a million if-statements to the essay question type. I will consider this for Moodle 2.0, but it is low priority.

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Tim Hunt added a comment - Hmm. it may actually be better to create a separate question type for manually graded code/plain text questions, rather than adding a million if-statements to the essay question type. I will consider this for Moodle 2.0, but it is low priority.
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Tim Hunt added a comment -

I think it now makes sense to only do this after the new question engine is finished.

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Tim Hunt added a comment - I think it now makes sense to only do this after the new question engine is finished.
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Tim Hunt added a comment -

Also, the new input format infrastructure in Moodle 2.0 should help with this, but I have not seen the details of that yet.

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Tim Hunt added a comment - Also, the new input format infrastructure in Moodle 2.0 should help with this, but I have not seen the details of that yet.
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Tim Hunt added a comment -

Fixed in 2.1 dev now that MDL-20636 has been integrated.

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Tim Hunt added a comment - Fixed in 2.1 dev now that MDL-20636 has been integrated.

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