Student response truncated in quiz: angle brackets

Symptoms

Student responses to quiz questions may become truncated under certain circumstances: using <pre> tags to encapsulate computer code may result in the response being cut short where a '<' is used in the code.

Severity

Moderate.

May affect teaching staff or students and cause interruption to normal business activities.

User roles affected

• Students
• Lecturers
• Tutors

Resolution

Vendor has prioritised this for future enhancement.

Workaround

Students should be instructed to place a space between a '>' (greater than ) or '<' (less than ) sign in their assessment response.