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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to create more complex mathematical notation and make our notation far more accessible. We also learned how to speed up the process of including math notation in our courses by installing DragMath—a drag-and-drop equation editor that installs directly into Moodle's HTML editor. Up to now, the notation we have inserted into our courses has primarily been in the form of mathematical notation rendered in an image. This image isn't directly accessible to any user who is blind or visually impaired, unless he/she is familiar with TeX. One solution is to generate math using MathML. This isn't natively supported by all browsers, so we investigated how this support could be added into Internet Explorer.

Specifically, we covered these topics:

  • Installing and using the TeX filter for more advanced mathematical notation

  • How jsMath overcomes problems with web hosting providers who don't provide all the commands we need to make the TeX filter operate correctly

  • Installing...