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Moodle 1.9 Math

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Moodle 1.9 Math

Overview of this book

Moodle is a popular e-learning platform that is making inroads into all areas of the curriculum. Using moodle helps you to develop exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses. But teaching math requires use of graphs, equations, special notation, and other features that are not built into Moodle. Using Moodle to teach Mathematics presents its own challenges. The book will show you how to set-up a Moodle course to support the teaching of mathematics. It will also help you to carefully explore the Moodle plugins that allow the handling of equations and enable other frequently used mathematical activities. Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of converting mathematics teaching over to Moodle. It provides you with everything you need to include mathematical notation, graphs, images, video, audio, and more in your Moodle courses. By following the practical examples in this book, you can create feature-rich quizzes that are automatically marked, use tools to monitor student progress, employ modules and plugins allowing students to explore mathematical concepts. You'll also learn the integration of presentations, interactive math elements, SCORM, and Flash objects into Moodle. It will take you through these elements in detail and help you learn how to create, edit, and integrate them into Moodle. Soon you will develop your own exciting, interactive, and engaging online math courses with ease.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Math
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface

Equation editors


A great way to include complex notation in your Moodle course is to use an equation editor. The two readily available editors discussed in detail in this section are as follows:

  • Microsoft Equation Editor—ships with all versions of Microsoft Office

  • OpenOffice.org Math—if you're not a Microsoft Office user and want to create complex math notation for free, then this is a great choice

Microsoft Office Equation Editor

Microsoft Equation Editor is a program that's bundled free in Microsoft Office. I'm currently using Word 2003. Let's open the Equation Editor and create our first equation.

How to use the Equation Editor

The Microsoft Office Equation Editor is very easy to use. The trick is first finding it:

  1. 1. Open Microsoft Word. Create a new Web page document:

  2. 2. From the main menu, select Insert | Object. The Object dialog is displayed. Scroll down the list of different object types until you find Microsoft Equation 3.0:

  3. 3. Press the Equation editor button. The Equation editor...