Maths Equations Creator

[oneilllj]

My Maths team are having a lot of issues with the equation creator in RCE as it doesn't have all the functions they need. I am currently looking into MathType as an LTI, however, as that can have a cost, it isn't necessarily our best course of action.

These are the issues, they are experiencing - any feedback or guidance would be appreciated.

At the moment, some significant gaps in what we can type on CANVAS are:

• Matrices (Year 10-12 General and Specialist Maths)
• Vectors (Year 11-12 Specialist Mathematics)
• Combinatorics probability (Year 10-12 Methods and Specialist Maths)
• Log functions (Year 10-12 General, Methods and Specialist)
• Trig Functions (Year 9-12 all subjects)

… and they’re just the things my team has pointed out to me as they have tried to type up the learning intentions in canvas.

They also find it frustrating that there is no automatic equal signs aligner.

Also – most teachers know the basic ‘LaTeX’ code for really common maths terms – ie \cap is the mathematical ‘and’ symbol for probability. However, CANVAS doesn’t allow this – it is making it really really slow to type up the maths because they have to keep going into the menu to insert these symbols.

[James]

@oneilllj 

You can type LaTeX directly into Canvas and bypass the equation editor completely. Use \ ( and \ ) as delimiters. Canvas uses MathJax for display, although not the most recent (which may have issues) version.

Note there is no space between \ ( and \ ), but the community software recognizes the LaTeX as well and it wouldn't come through if I didn't space it out.