Add multilingual support for exercise descriptions and tips to be displayed in the exercise implementation #2928
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Implements and closes #2743
To improve maintenance of exercises in multilingual teaching scenarios it would be great to provide exercises with exercise descriptions in several languages rather than working with translated copies of a task. CodeOcean has already multilingual support. However, it is restricted to its GUI. An promising approach can be Moodle's Multilang Content Filter: Attributes (
lang="XX"
andclass="multilang"
) are used to indicate the multi-language nature and to specify the exact language of a content element. CSS is then used to control the visibility on the page.When editing the exercise description the instructor had to use the suggested attributes as shown in the examples below:
Example 1 (separated paragraphs):

Example 2 (Inline separation of multilingual text):
German:

English:
