Hi Kurt,
There's been a little work on this:
http://webwork.maa.org/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1971
http://bugs.webwork.maa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1155
I don't know if anyone has tested the patch posted in the bug report besides the author.
Jason
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