Latex Shows for Math Expressions

[teresa_cox]

I am a math teacher who has several question banks to use. As I check for questions to use in a new unit, I find that many of my previously created and/or imported questions have converted to latex code. Help! I don't want to recreate the wheel and spent a good deal of time to create and organize the question banks I do have (even a change in curriculum didn't slow me down). But not being able to use approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of my questions will.

Is there a way to make the latex code change back? I do not know latex and hope I don't have to learn it to fix this issue.

See the attached example below.

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @teresa_cox,

Is this happening, by chance, in classic quiz question banks for banks that have more than 50 questions where you need to hit a button to load more questions?  I just discovered there is a bug where all the questions that load after clicking the button show as html (not showing latex/images/etc and displaying things like the <p> tags).  Canvas support tole me this is a known issue, and I believe the fix is in QA testing now, which usually means we should see it deployed within a few weeks if the testing goes well.

-Chris

[teresa_cox]

Yes, Chris, I do have more than 50 questions in a bank, even though I separate by unit. Good to know I don't have to throw away those questions. I will be waiting for the fix!

[James]

Just for clarification purposes in case someone other than me sees the word LaTeX and gets all excited ...

The code that is showing is HTML, not LaTeX.

Latex would have been \(x^3+6x^2-2x-12\).

Regardless, it's good to know that Canvas is aware of it and a solution is coming.

Edit: So I discovered something new this morning. The community software now supports LaTeX entry. Awesome! But that means that my LaTeX example didn't come through as LaTeX. I don't know how many of my other posts that ruined where I was trying to tell people how to enter LaTeX, but it's still awesome.

Here's what it should be, but without the space between the \ and the parentheses.

Latex would have been \ (x^3+6x^2-2x-12\ ).

[teresa_cox]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.