QTI import apostrophes changed to accented O

[CarolDungan]

I am importing quizzes via qti files created using a quiz template for excel spreadsheets. They are saved as csv and converted to qti using the Kansas State Classic to QTI 2.0 converter recommended by Instructure. Works great, import is smooth except every apostrophe is changed to

õ  <  this guy

Since there is no spell check tool in Canvas (ahem), I have to manually correct these. In the answers it's particularly challenging due to the size limitation of the answer field.

Any fix for this other than what I'm already doing?

 

[chriscas]

Hi @CarolDungan,

I'm wondering if this is actually an issue with the converter tool that K-State built, or an issue with Canvas itself.  I don't see any kind of support info for that tool (probably because it's just provided as a resource for the good of the community), but I'm going to tag @curtain in case he knows anything about the team responsible for that tool and could maybe check if this is a known issue with it right now.

-Chris

[curtain · Accepted solution]

Hey there and thanks for tagging me @chriscas. If I recall the issue here is that in Word or in Microsoft products, the apostrophe and single quote character are 2 different items. I think the single quote is called a curly quote maybe.   At any rate we found we had to save Word docs as plain text files first and then do the conversion. A conversion to csv would also address that I would have thought.  You might try doing a find and replace for all the single quotes and see if replacing them in with an apostrophe in a plain text editor does it.  I can test in a day or two myself but am not free tomorrow to dig into it.

Unfortunately that tool is unsupported effectively at this point in that our teams and staffing have changed so it is no longer being actively maintained.