New Quiz Export-Import Formula Questions Broken

[lmoriearty]

I created a quiz (new quizzes) with mostly formula-based questions. I exported the quiz from the New Quiz menu and received a .zip file. I was going to share the file with someone, but wanted to test it first. When I imported the zip file into a sandbox course I have, the questions all showed up, but in the formula questions, most of the variables showed up as variables and not the numbers I had defined them to be. (i.e. if I had 5 variables....`a` `b` `c` `d` `e`, maybe one or two of them would show up as a number, but the rest would show just as I typed them here. 

The weird part is that there is a still a calculated answer in the box.

I've tried to click on the question to edit or see what is wrong, but the screen goes blank and freezes up. 

I'm including two screenshots of my original setup (the good one!), and a screenshot of what the imported quiz looks like. 

Anyone experienced something similar to this?

[MatthewClifft]

Hi Lmoriearty, 

That's really strange and I'm not sure if it's known. I would recommend reaching out to Canvas support and providing them those specific screenshots and the .zip file, as well as which course and quizzes those are referencing. If you remember the exact steps you took, for the export and import processes, providing those steps would also help. Canvas support should be able to look into it and identify if something odd happened when it was re-imported, or if there's some limitation in place for formula questions, and they can confirm that if an issue is present, it's documented and start working on resolving it. 

[James]

@lmoriearty 

Interesting problem. I don't have an answer regarding the messed-up import, but something else jumped out at me.

If this was a Classic Quiz, I would tell you not to use [e] as a variable. It's a shortcut for the constant e. The documentation still points to the helper functions for Classic Quizzes that says this. With New Quizzes, it appears that e is the constant unless you have a variable named e. Or is it?

The answers are not re-generated when you export the quiz. But the importer might be messing up on seeing a variable called `e`.

Is what you're seeing repeatable? Does it mess up on every question with an `e` in it? If so, can you try changing the `e` to something else and see if it fixes it.

I did try duplicating a quiz that had a question like this is in it and it came through okay. Perhaps it's something about putting it into the ZIP file that's causing the problem?