Markdown issues in Quiz question choices

ideas & feature requests
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I’m having some trouble creating questions about arithmetic in Python. Answers that are just the operator *, - or + are being interpreted as markdown, and being rendered as bullets with no text in the course UI, when I publish it and try it out. I’ve had to replace these with similar-looking Unicode equivalents, U+FF0B Fullwidth Plus, U+FF0A Fullwidth Asterisk and U+2011 Non-breaking Hyphen.

Before I found this workaround I tried quoting the symbols like “*” or escaping them like /* or even adding leading spaces but they kept being borked by the UI.

Please don’t parse quiz question answers as markdown, or allow me to escape or quote markdown characters.

Thanks

Alan Harrison, education consultant, author of “How to Teach Computer Science” - httcs.online

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Hi Alan, thanks for the feedback and raising the issue. We can reproduce the issue and are tracking a ticket to resolve this.

For a temporary workaround, you can use the raw markdown mode to edit direct markdown and not run into any issues. You should be able to escape any character with a backslash (\)