essay question text field SLOW on IE

You could place an entry field on the page and actually hide the essay question field. That way when the user types something in there is no LMS communication at that point. You want to make sure that you do not have the option to retain variable value on the entry field as it will do the same thing as the test question. Then on the next button for that page, have the first action set to on mouse click, modify variable, select the question variable and for the value enter VAR(the variable name for the entry field) with the modification type set to set variable contents. Then if you want the user to see their typed in answer when they return to the course, just place the reverse action on the page with the question or the page before that states on show, modify variable, select your entry field variable and the new value would be VAR(question variable). This way the only communication with the LMS will be once the user hits the next button on the page and it will not be letter by letter but rather the entire value. Try this and see if it works for you.You could place an entry field on the page and actually hide the essay question field. That way when the user types something in there is no LMS communication at that point. You want to make sure that you do not have the option to retain variable value on the entry field as it will do the same thing as the test question. Then on the next button for that page, have the first action set to on mouse click, modify variable, select the question variable and for the value enter VAR(the variable name for the entry field) with the modification type set to set variable contents. Then if you want the user to see their typed in answer when they return to the course, just place the reverse action on the page with the question or the page before that states on show, modify variable, select your entry field variable and the new value would be VAR(question variable). This way the only communication with the LMS will be once the user hits the next button on the page and it will not be letter by letter but rather the entire value. Try this and see if it works for you.