Posts Tagged ‘wiris’
WIRIS tackles accessibility and performance in it’s latest release
Wiris Math editor for Moodle provides an easy way to create and administer mathematic equations in quizzes or through the text editor generally. Recently they've focused on improving accessibility and performance. Their recent announcements highlights the accessibility improvements which have been made and works based on the native language of [...]
Wiris Quizzes makes it easy for math students to answer
If you're a math teacher then you might want to checkout Wiris Quizzes, a new upgraded plugin that provides students an easy way to create mathematical notation (fractions, exponents, roots, derivatives and more) to answer questions within the Moodle assessment engine. We haven't just adapted our tool from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2. We have taken [...]
Wiris updates plugins and addons for Moodle 2
Wiris, "The global solution for mathematics education", has updated its collection of plugins for Moodle 2. The Wiris editor is now compatible with LaTeX and the Wiris tool set is mobile accessible. The newest product from Wiris allows student answers/submissions to be checked against several criteria (simplified, correct/incorrect, factorized) [...]
Apply by 2/3 for an Official Blogger Pass to the Ireland/UK Moot #Mootieuk12
If you're a blogger who's planning on attending the Ireland/UK Moodle Moot this coming April you have until Friday, February 3rd to apply to land an Official Blogger Pass for the event (which means you get in for free): http://moodlemoot.ie/calling-bloggers/. Registration for the event is now open and the prizes and giveaways are stacking up [...]
A WIRIS giveaway: 5 Yearly Site Licenses just for contributing questions!
Good news for math teachers across the globe, WIRIS, a provider of a math equation editor plugin for Moodle is giving away site licenses to teachers that contribute to the WIRIS collection of questions on their site: http://collection.wiris.com/quizzes. According to their newsletter published before Thanksgiving this year: WIRIS will give [...]
Win a pass to iMoot sponsored by @wirismath #imoot
My sponsors over at Wiris have been kind enough to keep the Moodlenews.com train chugging along (covering our hosting costs, the Moodle Mug budget, our contributions to Moodle.org and some take-away when required...blogging gives me an appetite). Enter to Win here! They were also kind enough to let us revise the advertising space on the site to [...]
Adding Mathematical Equations using the Moodle text editor with @wirismath
Ramon Eixarch, a staff member at Maths for More, creators of the WIRIS (@wirismath) extension for Moodle sent along this great video that really highlights how easily equations can be created using their extension. Seems to be a very easy way to create and edit mathematical equations with your Moodle text editor. Video link: [...]
#mootustx10 Keynote Recap: John Mullen – Connected Environments in Edu
Nearly live from the Moot, for more http://twitter.com/#search?q=mootustx10 John Mullen of Dell opened the Moot this morning with a quick chat about the state of technology in education and Dell's various initiatives to help schools and institutions cut costs and focus on innovation. Though commercial in a sense (there were very specific [...]
On Location: Austin Moot #MootusTX10
Hey y'all: Today and tomorrow only I am on location at the Austin Moodle Moot. I'll be presenting tomorrow (Tuesday) about the non-official Moodle community (and what I've learned about it since starting Moodlenews) and unveiling a special, new project that I've been working on: stay tuned! Today I'll be periodically posting from live sessions, [...]
