[Using Sakai] sakai-user Digest, Vol 19, Issue 24

[Marshall Feldman]

Hi Chris,

I don't know if this would work (maybe someone else on this list can 
tell us), but have you tried putting your rubrics on a separate html 
page and just using the model answer area to load them in an iframe? 
This may be a way around the 4k limit.

     Marsh

On 9/27/10 1:58 AM, sakai-user-request at collab.sakaiproject.org wrote:
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:44:02 -0700
> From: Christopher Heard<christopher.heard at pepperdine.edu>
> Subject: [Using Sakai] Character limits and HTML coding
> To:<sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
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> Dear Sakai users,
>
> Hello! I've been using Sakai for about a year, but I'm new to this mailing list. Is this the right place to report problems with existing Sakai tools and/or to post feature requests/wish lists?
>
> Just in case I'm in the right crowd, here's my issue: when I use the Source option in the rich text editor to write Questions and Model Short Answers for essay/short answer questions, either the editor or Sakai rewrites my code, formatting it in a way that appeals visually to somebody behind the curtain but that introduces a whole bunch of space characters that take my code over the 4,000-character limits in the relevant text areas. Specifically, I use a lot of HTML coding to provide important information in a tabular format to my students. In particular, I use the Model Short Answer text area to provide a rubric for each essay question, so that students can informally self-assess before they get the official assessment from me. I present this information in an HTML table. I keep blank spaces and even carriage returns to a minimum to conserve characters, but either Sakai or FCK Editor insist on putting in a bunch of carriage returns and spaces (to simulate tabs). The effect c
>   an be quite significant. In one case, the code I wrote occupies only 3,616 characters in my HTML editor, but when I paste it into Sakai, the forced reformatting takes the character count up to 4,007 characters. The surplus 391 characters are all carriage returns and blank space used to simulate tab stops?pleasing to some programmer's eye but completely irrelevant to the browsers interpreting the code. In essence, the reformatting robs me of 11% of the characters I could use to communicate with my students.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to shut off or override this behavior?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Chris
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