[Building Sakai] Samigo grading fill in questions with accents problems

Karen Tsao ktsao at stanford.edu
Tue Sep 7 11:28:07 PDT 2010


Cheryl,

Can you please log this issue in JIRA? Please add the sample texts and the
way to reproduce it.

Thanks,
Karen

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Johns, Cheryl <cheryl.johns at yale.edu> wrote:

> Just to refresh.  The main problem occurred when the instructor created her
> test questions and responses in Microsoft Word and then used the 'Paste from
> Word' icon in the FCK editor to paste the question into Samigo's FCK editor.
>  There was some artifact, it seemed, from the 'Paste from Word' option that
> corrupted the question/answer pair.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Francois Leveque [mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 5:55 AM
> To: Karen Tsao
> Cc: Johns, Cheryl; Developers Sakai-Dev
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Samigo grading fill in questions with accents
> problems
>
> Hi Cheryl and Karen,
>
> Are there issues in JIRA for the problems Cheryl has found?
>
> Cheers,
> J-F
>
> Karen Tsao a écrit :
> > Hi Cheryl,
> >
> > I think what your test case is not what should be used by instructors...
> > If the instructor have "naci&oacute;" as the correct answer, not only
> > instructor sees the HTML encoding in authoring and grading, when
> > students take/review the assessment, they will also see this as correct
> > answer. Shouldn't "nació" be displayed to students? Additionally, if you
> > have "nació" entered correctly, all the questions are graded correctly.
> >
> > However, I do agree all the questions should be graded correctly even if
> > we enter "naci&oacute;". But because this should not be a common use
> > case, and the fix seems not local but we are in the late stage of 2.7.x
> > release, I plan to fix this in 2.8. Please let me know what you think.
> >
> > By the way, I work on a mac and cannot reproduce what you have using Neo
> > Office or Open Office. I will give it a try later when I can access a
> > window box.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Karen
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Johns, Cheryl <cheryl.johns at yale.edu
> > <mailto:cheryl.johns at yale.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     That is how I typed it into the question.
> >
> >
> >
> >     I'm on a windows box and had no other way to create the character
> >     without cutting/pasting from Word.  I'm sure there is another way,
> >     but the behavior is still odd if you look at the tests and how they
> >     are scored.
> >
> >
> >
> >     *From:* ktsao at hungs.org <mailto:ktsao at hungs.org>
> >     [mailto:ktsao at hungs.org <mailto:ktsao at hungs.org>] *On Behalf Of
> >     *Karen Tsao
> >     *Sent:* Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:16 PM
> >
> >     *To:* Johns, Cheryl
> >     *Cc:* Developers Sakai-Dev
> >     *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Samigo grading fill in questions
> >     with accents problems
> >
> >
> >
> >     Hi Cheryl,
> >
> >     I saw you have "naci&oacute;" instead of "nació" in your question
> >     text. Do you do this intentionally? Or this is created through
> >     import from an old assessment?
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     Karen
> >
> >     On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Johns, Cheryl
> >     <cheryl.johns at yale.edu <mailto:cheryl.johns at yale.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     We just tested this on nightly and the behavior is the same.  The
> >     last question does not get graded properly.
> >
> >
> >
> >     I'll add you to that site as well with your Stanford address.
> >
> >
> >
> >     *From:* ktsao at hungs.org <mailto:ktsao at hungs.org>
> >     [mailto:ktsao at hungs.org <mailto:ktsao at hungs.org>] *On Behalf Of
> >     *Karen Tsao
> >
> >
> >     *Sent:* Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:47 PM
> >     *To:* Johns, Cheryl
> >
> >     *Cc:* Developers Sakai-Dev
> >
> >
> >     *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Samigo grading fill in questions
> >     with accents problems
> >
> >
> >
> >     Hi Cheryl,
> >
> >
> >
> >     I cannot reproduce your issue in either Sakai 2.6.x instance or my
> >     trunk instance. Can if you give me the instructor and student login
> >     of your instance so I can take a look at your instance?
> >
> >     Also, can you please try this in Sakai 2.6.x nightly instance
> >     (http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8087/portal) and let me know if
> >     you can reproduce your issue there? If you cannot reproduce this in
> >     Sakai 2.6.x, you probably missing some patches. What svn revision do
> >     you have?
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     Karen
> >
> >     2010/4/27 Johns, Cheryl <cheryl.johns at yale.edu
> >     <mailto:cheryl.johns at yale.edu>>
> >
> >     We are using Sakai 2.6.x and are having problems with fill in
> >     questions grading properly when the answers have accent characters
> >     in them.  Here is an example of the question and how Samigo
> >     functions based on how the test is created.
> >
> >
> >
> >     Question:  El actor y humorista Mauricio Borensztein (Tato Bores)
> >     {nació} (nacer) en Buenos Aires el 27 de abril de 1927. Desde chico
> >     {tuvo} (tener) que salir a trabajar para ayudar en su casa. Antes de
> >     {cumplir} (cumplir) diez años ya {había estado|estaba} (estar)
> >     abriendo las puertas de los coches en la entrada del Teatro
> >     Cervantes. Pese a todo, {pudo} (poder) terminar la escuela primaria,
> >     pero no la secundaria.
> >
> >     <br />
> >
> >     A los 18 años {consiguió} (conseguir) trabajo como plomo, el que
> >     lleva los instrumentos y las partituras, en la orquesta de Luis
> >     Rolero que {amenizó} (amenizar) los programas de Pepe Iglesias en
> >     Radio Splendid. En los intervalos, Tato {contaba} (contar) chistes
> >     que el grupo {celebraba} (celebrar) ruidosamente. Julio Porter y
> >     Pepe Iglesias {se fijaron} (fijarse) en él y al poco tiempo lo
> >     {hicieron} (hacer) debutar ante los micrófonos. A través de Porter
> >     {se vinculó} (vincularse) paralelamente al teatro Maipo, el cual lo
> >     {incorporó} (incorporar) a sus elencos de revista, en los cuales
> >     {resplandeció} (resplandecer) con su humor político inyectado de
> >     sutilezas.
> >
> >     <br />
> >
> >     En 1957 {comenzó} (comenzar) su labor televisiva en La familia Gesa
> >     contando chistes políticos. En 1958, cuando el gobierno de Frondizi
> >     {enfrentó|enfrentaba} (enfrentar) una crisis ministerial, {apareció}
> >     (aparecer) por primera vez vestido de frac, con habano , lentes y
> >     peluca, para estar preparado "por si le {ofrecían|ofrecieran}
> >     (ofrecer) algún ministerio", y nunca más {se desentendió}
> >     (desentenderse) de ese atuendo.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     Scenario 1:  Quiz with 1 question, 1 part
> >
> >     Outcome:  Question scores fine
> >
> >
> >
> >     Scenario 2:  Quiz with 2 questions, 1 part (I put this question in
> >     twice)
> >
> >     Outcome:  The first question marks the answer wrong, but when the
> >     same answer is put into the second question, it scores as correct.
> >
> >
> >
> >     Scenario 3:  Quiz with 3 questions, 1 part (I put this question in
> >     three times)
> >
> >     Outcome:  The first and second questions mark the answer wrong, but
> >     when the same answer is put into the third question, it scores as
> >     correct.
> >
> >
> >
> >     Scenario 4:  Quiz with 2 questions, 2  parts (I put this question in
> >     twice; 1 question in each part)
> >
> >     Outcome:  The first question marks the answer wrong, but when the
> >     same answer is put into the second question in the second part, it
> >     scores as correct.
> >
> >
> >
> >     I can give someone  guest IDs (both instructor and student) on our
> >     server if you want to see the behavior.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     Cheryl Johns
> >
> >     Applications Support Manager, Instructional Solutions
> >
> >     http://cmi2.yale.edu
> >
> >     The Center for Media and Instructional Innovation
> >
> >     135 College Street, Suite 101
> >
> >     New Haven, CT  06510
> >
> >     Office: 1.203.436.4626
>
> --
> Jean-Francois Leveque
> Australe CTO (local Sakai)
> University Pierre and Marie Curie
> France
>
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