New Quiz Multiple Choice Problem

I opened my module this morning in preparation for a Zoom with my ESL students. In checking one of the New Quizzes, I found that there were little arrows next to some of the correct answers in multiple choice questions. I checked "Preview" and found that the arrows were also visible there. This has never happened before. I tried to monkey with the questions, switching the "correct" answer to one of the others. Still the arrows are there. Any ideas?

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bratsj58

Thank you both. I ended up just deleting those correct answers completely and typing them in again. When I tried "copy & paste" before deleting, that did not work. The quiz was from a course I imported from last spring, but I hadn't had trouble with any other one. Some kind of corruption, though, might have been the problem. Out of 15 multiple choice questions, there were only 5 that appeared that way. And James, looking at the HTML would have been interesting, but I'd already fixed them when I saw your suggestion. That will be something to do if it ever happens again. Thanks again!

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tatee1

Hello,

I'm not seeing that in my Chrome browser so this might be a browser issue. Try a different browser or be sure that your browser is up-to-date.

James

@bratsj58

I wonder if there is something about those particular answers, other than just being the correct response, that is causing the arrows to appear?

Have you tried using the HTML editor view on the possible answers? It's the < /> at the bottom of the Rich Content Editor.

Those up/down arrows can appear when you have a specify type="number" on an input. That should not be a problem here. It could also mean that there is more than is not shown and you need to scroll to see it. I tested entering more than one line and it showed all of them, so it's not something quite so simple.

That's why I hope that looking that the HTML of the answer might show up something. For simple responses like yours, there should be an opening paragraph element and a closing one with the text in the middle. If you see other things like span elements, try taking those out.

bratsj58

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