Canvas Question Banks -- LaTeX Rendering Issue

[KaysonReardon]

Hello,

   I am an Instructional Design Assistant trying to create a question bank for a class final and am running into some issues with creating answers. The question editor itself is fine accepting LaTeX. The problem (ironically) has no issue displaying the LaTeX. The answers do.

   For example, I am creating a question that looks like this:

Let \(f(x)= \sqrt{5x}+6\). Find\(f^{-1}(x)\).

\( [1] = \dfrac{ [2] }{ [3] } \)

   The students are supposed to select the correct expression for [1], [2], and [3] respectively from a drop down menu, but the drop down menu does not render the LaTeX into mathematical expressions: it just stays its plain old self, which is confusing at best from a student's perspective.

   Is there any way to have LaTeX render in the answer box, or does anyone have a workaround to this issue?

[ColtonSwapp]

Hello @KaysonReardon Thanks for posting this in the Canvas Community! 

I just had a few questions for you on this post you made. 

• What type of quiz engine are you using when you encountered this issue? Canvas has the Classic quizzes engine and the New Quizzes engine that can be used. 
• What type of question were you using in the quiz when this was happening? 

-Colton

[KaysonReardon]

Thanks for the help @ColtonSwapp! I'm fairly new to the system, but I'll give you as much information as I have

• I created the question directly from the question bank page. That is, I created the question by going through:
  
  Quizzes >> Manage Question Banks >> Add Question Bank
  
  At which point I added a question once inside the bank
  
  
• The question type was a "multiple dropdown"

I also had a coworker tell me that part of the issue could be the fact that the questions rely on HTML to be setup, and putting the boxes in the LaTeX was essentially trying to nest HTML inside of LaTeX inside of HTML.