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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

Configuring and testing the Algebra Filter


First we need to switch on the Algebra Filter. Because you are going to be reconfiguring your Moodle, you'll need to be logged in as an administrator.

Here's how to switch on the Algebra Filter:

  1. 1. From the Site Administration block, click on Modules | Filters | Manage filters:

  2. 2. Look for the Algebra Notation filter. If this filter is disabled, then the eye in the Disable/Enable column is shut. Click on the eye to enable the filter:

  3. 3. Now we need to test that the filter is working correctly. Go to a course front page. Ensure editing is turned on. Click on the Edit summary icon:

  4. 4. Try typing the following text into the HTML editor:

  5. 5. To save your changes, click on the Save changes button.

  6. 6. After we save our changes, if all is well then a simple fraction is displayed as shown:

Algebra Filter troubleshooting

What if, instead of a fraction, you see the following error:

Let's check the Algebra Filter's special debug page. To open this page...