LON-CAPA Help

This panel lets you set various display options for content.

• Default XML style sheet

• Visibly Separate Items on a Page

• Disable Display of Problem Receipts

• Force use of a specific math rendering engine

• Set default options for < m > tags when converting L^AT_EX to html.

• Student formula entry uses inline preview, not DragMath pop-up

• Molecule editor uses JSME (HTML5) in place of JME (Java)

• Chemical reaction response uses inline preview, not pop-up

  Style files (.sty extension) created in Authoring Space and published to the shared content pool can be selected for use when rendering resources in the course by clicking the Select Style File link. See the "Resource Types" item in the "Introduction to LON-CAPA Authoring" section in the Authoring manual for more information about .sty files. An alternative to the use of .sty files is to create a CSS file (.css extension) in Authoring Space, and publish to the shared content pool. Note: in this case you would use a problem parameter "CSS file to link (cssfile)", accessed via Content Settings, instead of Course Settings, to apply the style to resource(s) in your course.

  Composite Pages include two or more resources on a single web page. By selecting "Yes" for visible separation, adjacent resources will be separated by a horizontal rule.

  Problem Receipts will be displayed by default when feedback on correctness is being displayed to a student, and the student has submitted the correct solution. See the "Verify a Submission Receipt Number" section ().

  If "Force use of a specific math rendering engine" is set to none, then the math display mechanism used to render LaTeX within <m></m> tags is determined in the following order, with the first one set being the one in effect:

  1. User's own personal preference set by the user hovering over the user's name at top left of a LON-CAPA page, and selecting Preferences > Math display settings

  2. Domain default set by a Domain Coordinator

  3. System default set for the LON-CAPA version installed on the server (tth in 2.11 and earlier)

  This can be overriden by setting the attribute display to one of MathJax, mimetex (i.e., Convert to Images) or tth (i.e., TeX to HTML) which will force a specific display mechanism.

  The behavior of the textboxes where students enter either an algebraic formula (formularesponse) or a chemical reaction (reactionresponse) is inherited from settings in the domain. The default, in the absence of a specific domain setting, is to use an inline preview which appears below the textbox, as the expression is typed. The domain default can be overridden within a specific course if it is preferred to use the old pop-up window displays in either case.

  Similarly, the the molecular editor display will use the domain setting, unless overridden within a specific course. If nothing is explicitly set in the domain or the course, then the default is to use JSME instead of its JME predecessor.