I have a teacher who is importing a quiz from her last year's course. She has mostly fill in the blank questions with full sentence answers. When she imports it to the current course, there are now dashes between the words instead of spaces. An example would be: I like ice cream. turns into I-like-ice-cream. upon import. Has anyone ever seen this?
Hello Heather Harris...
This certainly doesn't sound like normal Canvas behavior. Has your instructor considered contacting the folks at the Canvas Help Desk to report this as a possible bug? That's where I would start...so that the Canvas engineers could look into the issue and determine if they need to fix something on the back-end of Canvas. You can find more information on how to contact the Help Desk here: How do I get help with Canvas as an instructor?
I hope this helps, Heather.
Thank you! We are putting in a ticket to help desk as well as this
question. We thought it would be good to see if anyone else has had this
issue before.
Canvas just replied, it is a known issue and in to engineering.
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 4:52 PM chofer@morainepark.edu <
If it was a known issue, where was the announcement from Canvas? I can't find any evidence of being alerted to this. Just discovered.
I have had the same problem with fill in answers and hyphens appearing. It renders the key almost useless. I hope this can be resolved soon.
Deb Lawson
This just happened to me. Many of my fill in the blank questions Possible Answers were copied incorrectly. special characters like (), [], ", ' - were replaced with -. In addition, answers that were reformatted were preceded with RESPONSE_
This happened to me too. I was told the issue was corrected on Dec. 8, but courses imported before then would have this problem. Was there ever an announcement about this? This affects students' grades!
Good to hear that I'm not the only one having this issue. I hope that it really is fixed now.
Hello Heather Harris...
This certainly doesn't sound like normal Canvas behavior. Has your instructor considered contacting the folks at the Canvas Help Desk to report this as a possible bug? That's where I would start...so that the Canvas engineers could look into the issue and determine if they need to fix something on the back-end of Canvas. You can find more information on how to contact the Help Desk here: How do I get help with Canvas as an instructor?
I hope this helps, Heather.