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Online Exercise Issues
tw_karen
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Online Exercise Issues
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I have a computer issue with the online exercises. I would appreciate ANY help that you can give.
I have started a blog for my special writing class. I planned to put online exercises on it for
them to practice. I successfully linked
an online exercise and assigned it for homework. My students came back saying it was all
garbled computer script. I checked again
on my computer and it was fine. I work
with Firefox, so I tried with explorer.
It was fine. My computer is an
English computer capable of accepting Chinese characters. I went to the teachers� office and tried it
out. It was garbled. Their computers and the computers of my
students are Chinese computers capable of accepting English. They can look at English websites with no
problem, so why can�t they see these online exercises�
But wait! There is
more. I thought perhaps it was a blogger
issue, so I made groups and assigned passwords on englishexercises.org� and
then I tried it out on one of the teachers� office computers. It is still garbled.
Does anyone know how to fix this situation? Or are all my issues simply due to Chinese language
computers?
Thanks in advance for any help.
PS It looks like this:
omplete with the a/an/the.?/FONT>?ING border=0 hspace=0 align=right
And that is just the beginning. Getting into the activity it reads:
?INPUT size=3 name=/The/the/> wner of [] missing cat is asking for help. y baby has been missing or ver [] month now,
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24 Sep 2010
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douglas
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There is a good chance that the computers don �t have the font you used for text loaded on the them. I think there are 7 standard fonts that most computers have. You can check if it works using one of these fants.
Douglas
Edit: Oops, there are 10! Andale Mono, Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman, Impact, Comic Sans, Verdana, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, Webdings, |
24 Sep 2010
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tw_karen
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Thanks Douglas...
Now, is there any way I can modify the online exercise?
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24 Sep 2010
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douglas
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Sorry, that I don �t know--I have only done 1 online exercise and that was when I first discovered this site a couple of years ago.
Douglas |
24 Sep 2010
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miesies muis
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It happened with me as well. The computer at our schoo(1997/2003 model)l is much older than the one I have at home (2007). I fixed it by saving it as 1997 - 2003 document. My computer at home has a compatability mode, that I think the older computer don �t have. I hope this solves your problem. Good luck! |
24 Sep 2010
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