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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 saw how we could use our Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Writer skills to create math notation using their respective, built-in math equation editors. Although using a word processor to generate the notation was fairly straightforward, the process of creating math notation in one application and uploading it into another can become involved. That's why we investigated Moodle's built-in Algebra Filter to generate math notation in-situ.

Specifically, we covered these topics:

  • Creating math notation using Microsoft Equation Editor

  • Using OpenOffice.org Math to create math notation

  • How to switch on and use Moodle's built-in algebra notation filter, including plenty of examples of how to configure and use that filter to get you started

This chapter concentrated mainly on administrative tasks: we don't want to forget that converting our math teaching over to Moodle means we can create math courses that are entertaining and engaging. In the next chapter, we'll look at how to...