diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-mac-os.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-mac-os.yml
index 8816152..ffb29f7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-mac-os.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-mac-os.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: macos-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
     env:
       # set env variable for Wand
       MAGICK_HOME: '/opt/homebrew'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-ubuntu.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-ubuntu.yml
index a58b5bf..caf69a3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-ubuntu.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-ubuntu.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
         # unsupported version on ubuntu-latest 3.5, 3.6
         # see https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/linux/Ubuntu2204-Readme.md
     # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
diff --git a/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/amc2moodle_class.py b/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/amc2moodle_class.py
index 67b6ef7..9f088ab 100644
--- a/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/amc2moodle_class.py
+++ b/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/amc2moodle_class.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 import shutil
 from importlib import util  # python 3.x
 import tempfile
-from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree
+from shutil import copytree
 import logging
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ def runBuilding(self):
                                                dir=getPathFile(self.output))
                 #
                 Logger.info(' > Save all temp files in: %s' % tempdirSave)
-                copy_tree(self.tempdir.name, tempdirSave)
+                copytree(self.tempdir.name, tempdirSave, dirs_exist_ok=True)
 
             # clean XML file (experimental)
             if self.cleanXML:
diff --git a/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/convert.py b/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/convert.py
index 8f932a7..6b89acd 100755
--- a/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/convert.py
+++ b/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/convert.py
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ def _element_pre_process(self, tree):
         with CDATA.
         """
         # These elements should be <para> nodes at roots level.
-        all_para = tree.findall('/para')
+        all_para = tree.findall('./para')
         if len(all_para) > 0:
             Logger.warning(" > {} '\\element' blocks contain text outside ".format(len(all_para))
                            + "'Question environnement'. "
diff --git a/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/test.py b/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/test.py
index 39e5974..aba293e 100755
--- a/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/test.py
+++ b/amc2moodle/amc2moodle/test.py
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ def question_fields(self, qname, target_ans_sum,
                             frac = float(a.attrib['fraction'])
                             frac_list.append(frac)
                             s += frac
-                        print('In {}, fraction are {}\n'.format(qname, frac_list))
+                        Logger.debug('In {}, fraction are {}\n'.format(qname, frac_list))
                         if abs(s - target_ans_sum) > TOL:
                             ok += 1
                     else:
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ def test_numerical(self):
         # check it
         equiv = check_hash(fileOut, fileRef)
         if equiv:
-            print(' > Converted XML is identical to the ref.')
+            Logger.info(' > Converted XML is identical to the ref.')
         # self.assertTrue(equiv, 'The converted file is different from the ref.')
 
     def test_tikz(self):
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ def test_tikz(self):
         # check it
         equiv = check_hash(fileOut, fileRef)
         if equiv:
-            print(' > Converted XML is identical to the ref.')
+            Logger.info(' > Converted XML is identical to the ref.')
         # self.assertTrue(equiv, 'The converted file is different from the ref.')
 
     def test_cleaning(self):