In Chapter 1 we began converting our teaching over to Moodle. We uploaded a past paper and complemented that with a forum—an online discussion area. At the end of the previous chapter, I mentioned that my students and I were struggling to include mathematical notation, so in this chapter we will learn how to include mathematical notation in our Moodle courses. There are two ways of including math notation: by using third-party equation editors (for example, the Equation Editor included in Microsoft Office) or by using built-in Moodle "filters". We will be investigating both third-party equation editors and the Moodle Algebra Filter (of all the special math filters included in a basic Moodle installation, the Algebra Filter is the easiest to configure and use).
In this chapter we will learn the following:
How equation editors can be used to create mathematical notation
How Moodle writes its own mathematical notation using the Algebra Filter...