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Background colour in feedback box.

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Hi, I think something's changed and I hope it is not my eyesight, because I suddenly seem to find it harder to see the text when I'm writing feedback for my students (see attached image). I'm using Firefox 117.0.1 on Linux Ubuntu 20.4.6.

Do you think you could change the background colour to maybe a light grey if you prefer it not to be white?

by Juan José
09/21/2023

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Hi Juan José,

We will look into this to make it as readable as possible. We will keep you posted.

Kind regards.

Hi Juan José,

We have improved the readability of the selected text annotation. We hope it's easier to read now.

Kind regards.

This time you have surpassed yourselves, not only can I choose the background and font colour, but also the font and size. Thank you so much!!

Juan José 09/26/2023

Hi, I have another problem (see attached image): it is easy to see which wrong options were selected, but it is not so easy to distinguish selected from unselected items when the answer is correct, which is confusing for some of my students.

Is it done on purpose, so that it is harder for them to copy the correct answers from a friend? It if isn't, and nobody has asked for it, could you show the correctly unselected items with a lighter colour, too?

Juan José 04/09/2024

Also, usually the text fields to give students feedback show up with a white background, but sometimes they have a blue one which makes it hard to read what I'm writing:

Juan José 04/09/2024

Hi Juan José,

The problem in this case is that the background color is quite similar to the color used in the correct answers. If we change these colors, the problem will be the same when using another background color. One solution would be using an score system and change the colors in cases like these.

In the feedback, the blue color appears when editing the field, so it can be seen that it's selected and editable, but when unselected the background changes to white (or the color you might have selected for that field). It's the same system used in the editor, so it's not feasible to change it.

Best regards.

Sacha TopWorksheets 04/10/2024

I understand, thanks for the tip about the score system.

Juan José 04/10/2024

Hi again, I have finally realised the problem in the second case: sometimes the font for the comment is red by default, but I can easily fix that by changing it to black, and then it's easy to read. Thanks for taking the trouble to explain.

About the first problem, I think I didn't make myself clear: the background colour in the document is not the problem, but rather that the background colour of the marked and unmarked fields in the correct answers are too similar to each other, so it's hard to see which have been marked and which have not. In the case of wrong answers, the difference is more clear, as the marked ones appear in red and the unmarked in such a pale shade of red that it looks almost grey. My request would be for the unmarked fields in correct answers to appear also with a very light (green) background. Is that feasible?

Juan José 04/16/2024

Hi Juan José,

Please can you send us the link for the submission of the worksheet and we will take a look at this particular case.

Kind regards.

Here is one example:

https://www.topworksheets.com/teacher/submissions/view/73372297-90d0-485f-88b1-5bfb4a3fb817?mode=task

Juan José 04/18/2024

Thank you so much for fixing that, too!!

Juan José 10 days ago