The backticks to mark a blank in a question doesn't work for multiple characters, like asterisks or brackets. I'm working on fill-in-the-blank questions for a computer programming course and the inability to use those characters make fill-in-the-blank on New Quizzes unusable. 

I've tried workarounds and get errors. There are multiple blanks for one answer. And in some cases, the blanks don't appear at all, so there's nowhere for someone to enter an answer.