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typing math symbols and exponents in RISE quiz option?? How do you do this?
How do I type in RISE quiz question and answer?
Please tell me its possible.
Thanks for explaining, John! The broadest point to all of this is that there has to be an equation editor, and it should be able to read LaTeX or MathML and be accessible. If that feature was available in Rise (and other products), it would open a world of possibilities as that feature is really needed by anyone building curriculum in the STEM fields.
Hi Ashley,
Have there been any developments with introducing an equation editor (or the ability to convert LaTeX) in Rise? We're still inserting equations as images but it's really not ideal as it is terrible for readability (images are automatically scaled down on small screens), as well as accessibility.
Cheers,
MichI was talking about this about 5 years ago and it's very disappointing that Latex or Math ML still aren't supported yet. Even Blackboard LMS supports these basic maths equation languages.
Hi Christian,
We receive hundreds of feature requests every week, so prioritizing them is no small task and we take it very seriously. Here's an inside look at how that process works.
I totally get that it can be frustrating to wait for a feature to come out, but please know that we're doing our very best to bring our users the features they want and need as quickly as possible.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Ok, so now I've explored copy and paste as well ASCII codes for both Greek symbols and exponents.
Copy and paste as well as ASCII Alt230 works for µ.
However, copy and paste does not work for exponents. ASCII Alt252 only delivers 10ⁿ . There is no way to actually type 10 to the power -6 in RISE.
Why is this? or am I missing something.
Its very reminiscent of when I first became excited about Articulate and then Storyline, only to discover science and math educators needs have been largely overlooked. Submitting feature requests also never solved this basic type setting issue.
I can solve the problem by painting my equations in Latex, doing a screengrab and inserting image into RISE question section. BUT this does not work when working with RISE answer section. There, it only expects text.
Hi Alphonso,
Math is not my forte so my exponent formatting may be a little confused - but I was able to type 10−⁶ in a Word doc and then copy and paste that into Rise as an answer. So that's the copy/paste element that seemed to work for me. The minus sign I wasn't able to bring higher than that to the superscript level, but not sure if you need it there? The superscript 6 did work for copy/paste though.
I think the problem is there are perhaps too few Maths, Statisticians, Science teachers that struggle with RISE and so an extended Greek symbol and maths operators such as superscript and subscript feature requests don't ever stand a chance of RISEing to the top of a priority list.
The point is, the number of Maths, Stats, Science teacher community cant RISE if these basic features are always missing when we want to create courses.
I think at some point the ARTICULATE developers have to make a policy decision that they wont release any new versions if a certain set standard of typographical features - which we taken as basic - are not part of the package.
It's what makes me stick to iBooks Author etc. (in conjunction with Tumult Hype and Geogebra) when developing online interactive material instead of becoming frustrated with ARTICULATE all the time. There I can even type in Latex commands and its understood.
Some of this felt like actual Greek to me ;-) I did share this with the team as a feature request and understanding the context for which you're creating courses and need the math equations, symbols, etc. is what can help drive this in our priority ranking, so I appreciate your candor here. As a former teacher myself (history...I stayed as far away as possible from math!) I would love to see more teachers using tools like Rise, and would have loved to have them in a classroom!
I will concur with the need. I have been watching this thread for some time with hopes of an update on this.
While things like sup/subscripts and Greek characters help, the reality is that until LaTeX is supported, Rise will never truly be ready for STEM courses. I have two 36 week courses in Chemistry and Physics that I would like to build in here, but that is not going to be realistic or accessible until LaTex is natively supported. An equation editor can be built on top of LaTeX. But LaTeX compatibility, itself, will be necessary before STEM courses can take Rise seriously.
I know that Rise is a new product, and we LOVE where it has gone so far. I just wanted to add my two cents about how equation editing is crucially important if Rise is going to be taken seriously by the sciences and technical fields.
My team is also really keen to see LaTex support in Rise — we've had to make do with formulas and equations as images but this is no where near ideal as it's not responsive at all and poses readability and clarity concerns.
Hi Ashley,
If we're working with straight HTML pages, we attach a link to the LaTeX script inside the header tags and that picks up the code and renders it as a formula when the page loads.
When we're working with our LMS, the link to the LaTeX script is already integrated in the site so we just type in LaTeX code where we need it.
LaTeX knows when you're using it because you frame your code with '\(' and '\)'. Then most things are coded by putting them inside curly braces (i.e '{ }'). I've attached an image that I use to teach LaTeX to my colleagues that you may find useful.
LaTeX can be used in much more complicated ways (you can build entire documents with it), but this is how we use it to build formulas.
Hope that helps :)
Cheers,
MichHi, Any update on the question of adding support for math equations in RISE?
Thanks.
