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WIRIS

2011-04-28T09:01:30Z

Reixarch: /* Pricing - Licenses */

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS cas''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
<li>'''WIRIS quizzes''', upgrade of Moodle quizzes with random variables and automatic evaluation of answers</li>
</ol>

==Screenshots==
[[Image:WIRIS_Editor_screenshot_01.png]]

== DEMO site ==
Test all WIRIS tools for Moodle in a demo site (cleaned every 24 hours)
[http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ ]

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [http://www.wiris.net http://www.wiris.net]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>[http://www.wiris.com/portal/plugin-moodle/download/ Download] WIRIS plugin</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS editor , WIRIS cas and WIRIS quizzes==
[http://www.wiris.com/editor/ WIRIS editor], [http://www.wiris.com/cas/ WIRIS cas] and [http://www.wiris.com/quizzes/ WIRIS quizzes]are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/store/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of the three products are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

WIRIS

2011-04-28T09:00:20Z

Reixarch: /* WIRIS editor and WIRIS cas */

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS cas''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
<li>'''WIRIS quizzes''', upgrade of Moodle quizzes with random variables and automatic evaluation of answers</li>
</ol>

==Screenshots==
[[Image:WIRIS_Editor_screenshot_01.png]]

== DEMO site ==
Test all WIRIS tools for Moodle in a demo site (cleaned every 24 hours)
[http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ ]

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [[www.wiris.net]]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>[http://www.wiris.com/portal/plugin-moodle/download/ Download] WIRIS plugin</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS editor , WIRIS cas and WIRIS quizzes==
[http://www.wiris.com/editor/ WIRIS editor], [http://www.wiris.com/cas/ WIRIS cas] and [http://www.wiris.com/quizzes/ WIRIS quizzes]are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/store/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of the three products are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

WIRIS

2011-04-28T08:55:41Z

Reixarch: /* WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS */

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS cas''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
<li>'''WIRIS quizzes''', upgrade of Moodle quizzes with random variables and automatic evaluation of answers</li>
</ol>

==Screenshots==
[[Image:WIRIS_Editor_screenshot_01.png]]

== DEMO site ==
Test all WIRIS tools for Moodle in a demo site (cleaned every 24 hours)
[http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ ]

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [[www.wiris.net]]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>[http://www.wiris.com/portal/plugin-moodle/download/ Download] WIRIS plugin</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS editor and WIRIS cas==
[http://www.wiris.com/editor/ WIRIS editor] and [http://www.wiris.com/cas/ WIRIS cas] are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/store/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS editor and WIRIS cas are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

WIRIS

2011-04-28T08:55:27Z

Reixarch: /* WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS */

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS cas''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
<li>'''WIRIS quizzes''', upgrade of Moodle quizzes with random variables and automatic evaluation of answers</li>
</ol>

==Screenshots==
[[Image:WIRIS_Editor_screenshot_01.png]]

== DEMO site ==
Test all WIRIS tools for Moodle in a demo site (cleaned every 24 hours)
[http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ ]

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [[www.wiris.net]]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>[http://www.wiris.com/portal/plugin-moodle/download/ Download] WIRIS plugin</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS==
[http://www.wiris.com/editor/ WIRIS editor] and [http://www.wiris.com/cas/ WIRIS cas] are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/store/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS editor and WIRIS cas are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

WIRIS

2011-04-28T08:54:50Z

Reixarch:

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS cas''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
<li>'''WIRIS quizzes''', upgrade of Moodle quizzes with random variables and automatic evaluation of answers</li>
</ol>

==Screenshots==
[[Image:WIRIS_Editor_screenshot_01.png]]

== DEMO site ==
Test all WIRIS tools for Moodle in a demo site (cleaned every 24 hours)
[http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ ]

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [[www.wiris.net]]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>[http://www.wiris.com/portal/plugin-moodle/download/ Download] WIRIS plugin</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS==
[http://www.wiris.com/editor/ WIRIS editor] and [http://www.wiris.com/cas/ WIRIS cas] are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/101/99/lang,en/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS editor and WIRIS cas are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

Mathematics tools FAQ

2010-09-20T13:19:27Z

Reixarch: /* What kind of Maths tools can Moodle use or adapt? */

This FAQ is a recent creation and is still building. If you have a relevant question and answer, please add it to the bottom.

==Does Moodle have any Math tools in it as native?==
It certainly does, and if you look at the [[Using TeX Notation]] pages, they will give you a good start on how you can, quickly and fairly easily, build a small body of knowledge that will allow you to move on to bigger and better things.

==What kind of Maths tools can Moodle use or adapt?==
There are two ways to use maths tools in Moodle. Plugins that integrate new functionality into Moodle. Many external programs that can be used to generate content that is easily imported to Moodle.

The list of Plugins for Moodle include among others [[Dragmath]], MathJAX or [[WIRIS]]. External programs include MathType which works with several Moodle Plugins.

==Will these tools be accessible in Moodle 2.0?==
Yes, there has already been a number of successful tests using DragMath, MathJax and Geogebra tools in Moodle 2.0. As well, the TeX Notation filter works the same in v1.9.x and v2.0. It appears that anything written in Moodle v1.9.x will adapt easily for Moodle 2.0.

==Does Moodle have an interactive whiteboard feature?==
Not as such, but it seems both the interactive and content is controlled by the whiteboard. You can use an interactive whiteboard to display Moodle, but unless you incorporate screen grabs from the Moodle into the whiteboard software, Moodle probably will not work as a genuine PHP App. Having said that, it is possible that at some stage in the future, a plugin for either, or even both, may be developed.

==I am using Windows Server 2003 and am trying to get the TeX filter to work.==
There are often three issues here, the first is the way in which Windows assigns permissions. You need to give write permissions to I_USER (or IIS_USER - all those people who use moodledata through internet) on moodledata folders and subfolders like D:\moodledata/filter/tex/ - and executable files need executable permissions.

It is also possible that what ever permissions you give to your files, Windows may permit running executable files on folders that are placed to system folders like c:\program files - I have seen this happen in Windows Vista and Windows 7 so it's probably true also in Windows Server 2003. If you install MikTex or TexLive for example to C:\Miktex (Texlive) or D:\Miktex (Texlive) and GhostScript and Imagemagick the same drive, such problems should not exist.

Sometimes you may need to delete old (Miktex) install folders from system (environment) variable PATH or add the correct folder to PATH if the install script has not done it automatically. Windows will not find the right files from the correct folder without the PATH being correct. (The TexLive installer scripts usually makes this automatic, but MikTeX needs be done manually.)

Finally, PHP settings may also prevent running of executable files - in the php.ini file look for the field "disable_functions", it should be empty and check the other programs security measures (in programs and scripts themselves) they should control running "non secure" commands like exec() or system(), not prevent them.

Thanks [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=9523&course=5 Mauno]

==We need to install Latex. Will all our current equations with the $$ tokens still work?==
The original TeX program written by Don Knuth used the $$ tokens to denote TeX. TeX has grown and evolved into a number of different versions, which have had further developments. Most TeX And LaTeX still support the $$ token, but it is usually undocumented. This is where a test Moodle comes in handy - installing a LaTeX into a test environment then checking the result will answer the question of which LaTeX will accept the $$ token. Be careful here, some newer versions of LaTeX use delimiters, not tokens, to denote TeX sequences.

==OK, what is the difference between a token and a delimiter?==
In TeX tokens are symbols used to denote a TeX command or control sequence. These can be $$ used in the native Tex Notation filter and supported by many versions of TeX and LaTeX, but they can also be \[ \] or any variation of any number of other symbols. A delimiter is what the LaTeX rendered in these pages uses. Moodle Docs went over to LiveTeX a little while ago, and now use the <nowiki><math> </math></nowiki> delimiter, much the same as html commands use, instead it has only one command, that of <nowiki><math> </math></nowiki>.

==See also==

*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=130 Mathematics Tools forum]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=104483 Creating equations] forum discussion
*[[Using TeX Notation]]
*[http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/works_with.htm?target=moodle Mathtype works with Moodle]
*[[WIRIS]] Plugin

[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:Mathematics]]
[[Category:FAQ]]

Mathematics tools FAQ

2010-09-20T13:13:35Z

Reixarch: /* What kind of Maths tools can Moodle use or adapt? */

This FAQ is a recent creation and is still building. If you have a relevant question and answer, please add it to the bottom.

==Does Moodle have any Math tools in it as native?==
It certainly does, and if you look at the [[Using TeX Notation]] pages, they will give you a good start on how you can, quickly and fairly easily, build a small body of knowledge that will allow you to move on to bigger and better things.

==What kind of Maths tools can Moodle use or adapt?==
There are two ways to use maths tools in Moodle. Plugins that integrate new functionality into Moodle. Many external programs that can be used to generate content that is easily imported to Moodle.

The list of Plugins for Moodle include among others [[DragMath]], MathJAX or [[WIRIS]]. External programs include MathType which works with several Moodle Plugins.

==Will these tools be accessible in Moodle 2.0?==
Yes, there has already been a number of successful tests using DragMath, MathJax and Geogebra tools in Moodle 2.0. As well, the TeX Notation filter works the same in v1.9.x and v2.0. It appears that anything written in Moodle v1.9.x will adapt easily for Moodle 2.0.

==Does Moodle have an interactive whiteboard feature?==
Not as such, but it seems both the interactive and content is controlled by the whiteboard. You can use an interactive whiteboard to display Moodle, but unless you incorporate screen grabs from the Moodle into the whiteboard software, Moodle probably will not work as a genuine PHP App. Having said that, it is possible that at some stage in the future, a plugin for either, or even both, may be developed.

==I am using Windows Server 2003 and am trying to get the TeX filter to work.==
There are often three issues here, the first is the way in which Windows assigns permissions. You need to give write permissions to I_USER (or IIS_USER - all those people who use moodledata through internet) on moodledata folders and subfolders like D:\moodledata/filter/tex/ - and executable files need executable permissions.

It is also possible that what ever permissions you give to your files, Windows may permit running executable files on folders that are placed to system folders like c:\program files - I have seen this happen in Windows Vista and Windows 7 so it's probably true also in Windows Server 2003. If you install MikTex or TexLive for example to C:\Miktex (Texlive) or D:\Miktex (Texlive) and GhostScript and Imagemagick the same drive, such problems should not exist.

Sometimes you may need to delete old (Miktex) install folders from system (environment) variable PATH or add the correct folder to PATH if the install script has not done it automatically. Windows will not find the right files from the correct folder without the PATH being correct. (The TexLive installer scripts usually makes this automatic, but MikTeX needs be done manually.)

Finally, PHP settings may also prevent running of executable files - in the php.ini file look for the field "disable_functions", it should be empty and check the other programs security measures (in programs and scripts themselves) they should control running "non secure" commands like exec() or system(), not prevent them.

Thanks [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=9523&course=5 Mauno]

==We need to install Latex. Will all our current equations with the $$ tokens still work?==
The original TeX program written by Don Knuth used the $$ tokens to denote TeX. TeX has grown and evolved into a number of different versions, which have had further developments. Most TeX And LaTeX still support the $$ token, but it is usually undocumented. This is where a test Moodle comes in handy - installing a LaTeX into a test environment then checking the result will answer the question of which LaTeX will accept the $$ token. Be careful here, some newer versions of LaTeX use delimiters, not tokens, to denote TeX sequences.

==OK, what is the difference between a token and a delimiter?==
In TeX tokens are symbols used to denote a TeX command or control sequence. These can be $$ used in the native Tex Notation filter and supported by many versions of TeX and LaTeX, but they can also be \[ \] or any variation of any number of other symbols. A delimiter is what the LaTeX rendered in these pages uses. Moodle Docs went over to LiveTeX a little while ago, and now use the <nowiki><math> </math></nowiki> delimiter, much the same as html commands use, instead it has only one command, that of <nowiki><math> </math></nowiki>.

==See also==

*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=130 Mathematics Tools forum]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=104483 Creating equations] forum discussion
*[[Using TeX Notation]]
*[http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/works_with.htm?target=moodle Mathtype works with Moodle]
*[[WIRIS]] Plugin

[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:Mathematics]]
[[Category:FAQ]]

Mathematics tools FAQ

2010-09-20T13:07:09Z

Reixarch: /* See also */

This FAQ is a recent creation and is still building. If you have a relevant question and answer, please add it to the bottom.

==Does Moodle have any Math tools in it as native?==
It certainly does, and if you look at the [[Using TeX Notation]] pages, they will give you a good start on how you can, quickly and fairly easily, build a small body of knowledge that will allow you to move on to bigger and better things.

==What kind of Maths tools can Moodle use or adapt?==
Essentially Moodle can use or adapt many of the TeX tools to suit the Moodle environment. There are many plugins or external programs that can be used to generate content that is easily imported to Moodle. Some programs, like Microsoft Word's Equation Editor do not, as of writing, import successfully.

==Will these tools be accessible in Moodle 2.0?==
Yes, there has already been a number of successful tests using DragMath, MathJax and Geogebra tools in Moodle 2.0. As well, the TeX Notation filter works the same in v1.9.x and v2.0. It appears that anything written in Moodle v1.9.x will adapt easily for Moodle 2.0.

==Does Moodle have an interactive whiteboard feature?==
Not as such, but it seems both the interactive and content is controlled by the whiteboard. You can use an interactive whiteboard to display Moodle, but unless you incorporate screen grabs from the Moodle into the whiteboard software, Moodle probably will not work as a genuine PHP App. Having said that, it is possible that at some stage in the future, a plugin for either, or even both, may be developed.

==I am using Windows Server 2003 and am trying to get the TeX filter to work.==
There are often three issues here, the first is the way in which Windows assigns permissions. You need to give write permissions to I_USER (or IIS_USER - all those people who use moodledata through internet) on moodledata folders and subfolders like D:\moodledata/filter/tex/ - and executable files need executable permissions.

It is also possible that what ever permissions you give to your files, Windows may permit running executable files on folders that are placed to system folders like c:\program files - I have seen this happen in Windows Vista and Windows 7 so it's probably true also in Windows Server 2003. If you install MikTex or TexLive for example to C:\Miktex (Texlive) or D:\Miktex (Texlive) and GhostScript and Imagemagick the same drive, such problems should not exist.

Sometimes you may need to delete old (Miktex) install folders from system (environment) variable PATH or add the correct folder to PATH if the install script has not done it automatically. Windows will not find the right files from the correct folder without the PATH being correct. (The TexLive installer scripts usually makes this automatic, but MikTeX needs be done manually.)

Finally, PHP settings may also prevent running of executable files - in the php.ini file look for the field "disable_functions", it should be empty and check the other programs security measures (in programs and scripts themselves) they should control running "non secure" commands like exec() or system(), not prevent them.

Thanks [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=9523&course=5 Mauno]

==We need to install Latex. Will all our current equations with the $$ tokens still work?==
The original TeX program written by Don Knuth used the $$ tokens to denote TeX. TeX has grown and evolved into a number of different versions, which have had further developments. Most TeX And LaTeX still support the $$ token, but it is usually undocumented. This is where a test Moodle comes in handy - installing a LaTeX into a test environment then checking the result will answer the question of which LaTeX will accept the $$ token. Be careful here, some newer versions of LaTeX use delimiters, not tokens, to denote TeX sequences.

==OK, what is the difference between a token and a delimiter?==
In TeX tokens are symbols used to denote a TeX command or control sequence. These can be $$ used in the native Tex Notation filter and supported by many versions of TeX and LaTeX, but they can also be \[ \] or any variation of any number of other symbols. A delimiter is what the LaTeX rendered in these pages uses. Moodle Docs went over to LiveTeX a little while ago, and now use the <nowiki><math> </math></nowiki> delimiter, much the same as html commands use, instead it has only one command, that of <nowiki><math> </math></nowiki>.

==See also==

*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=130 Mathematics Tools forum]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=104483 Creating equations] forum discussion
*[[Using TeX Notation]]
*[http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/works_with.htm?target=moodle Mathtype works with Moodle]
*[[WIRIS]] Plugin

[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:Mathematics]]
[[Category:FAQ]]

WIRIS

2010-09-20T13:05:46Z

Reixarch: /* Automatic installer */

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS CAS''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
<li>'''WIRIS quizzes''', upgrade of Moodle quizzes with random variables and automatic evaluation of answers</li>
</ol>

==Screenshots==
[[Image:WIRIS_Editor_screenshot_01.png]]

== DEMO site ==
Test all WIRIS tools for Moodle in a demo site (cleaned every 24 hours)
[http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ ]

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [[www.wiris.net]]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>[http://www.wiris.com/portal/plugin-moodle/download/ Download] WIRIS plugin</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS==
[http://www.wiris.com/content/view/20/62/lang,en/ WIRIS Editor] and [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/18/58/lang,en/ WIRIS CAS] are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/101/99/lang,en/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

Mathematics

2009-12-07T14:06:55Z

Reixarch: /* Mathematics Assessment */ WIRIS quizzes

==Equation Construction and Display==
===Tools===
There are a variety of tools that are available for the purpose of constructing equations, providing text expressions that can be converted to equations, and displaying equations.

The most common text expression syntax is LaTeX or a derivative with probably the most common form of display being a conversion of the equation to an image file. However, is demonstrated with ASCIIMathML simple text expressions can now be be converted to MathML on the fly.

Some tools for creating and displaying equations on-line that may be of interest to those teaching mathematics are:
* [[ASCIIMathML]], which both converts equations into MathML on the fly and provides a text expression syntax more easily mastered than Tex, though the filter will convert TeX expressions as well. [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106148 The ASCIIMathML 2.0.2 zip] provides all the files necessary for setting ASCIIMathML up as a Moodle filter as well creating run-time graphs with ASCIIsvg. An on-line calculator is also included. Just recently an ASCIIMathML export format for DragMath was added to version 0.7.2, [https://docs.moodle.org/en/DragMath_equation_editor available here], so that you have access to both a GUI and text expression syntax for creating and displaying equations. Quick and GIFless. [http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/asciencepad/asciencepad.html ASciencePad is also available] and consists of htmlarea enhanced with the ASCIIMathML functionality.
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=916 Tim Hunt's Moodle MathTran Module] converts Tex into images on the fly. You can also use [http://www.mathtran.org/wiki/index.php/TeX_image mathtran_img.js] on a page by page basis.
* The [[TeX filter]], which allows [http://www.tug.org/begin.html TeX markup] to be inserted anywhere (e.g. quiz questions, discussion messages, text resources)
* The [[jsMath]] filter, which does a similar job but using [[Javascript]] on the user's computer
* [[Calculated question type]]
* [[DragMath equation editor]], a WYSIWYG equation editor that integrates easily with the Moodle HTML editor.
* [[WIRIS]], is a plugin that easily integrates with the HTML editor several math tools. Test them at [http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/]
** WYSIWYG equation editor. Based on MathML
** Advanced calculator. Integrals, derivatives, limits, ploting in 2D and 3D,...
** Advancaed math quizzes

* MathType, a commercial product created by DSI (the folk who also offer MathPlayer, a plugin many IE users employ). Bob Mathews recently posted [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=93728&parent=549428] that info on MathType can be found at http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/workswith/moodle.htm
Mathematics teachers may also be interested to follow the work of [http://maths.york.ac.uk York University Maths department], who are working on [http://maths.york.ac.uk/serving_maths/ some projects] to augment Moodle, particularly its [[Quiz module]] for online assessment, for example by integrating a system which is able to mark algebraic and trigonometric answers to open-ended questions.

===Accessibility Display Matrix===

{{Expand-section|date=August 2008}}

■ Feature Key appears below the matrix.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!Notation
!Tex/LaTex
!ASCIIMath
!MathML
|-
|Ease of Use
|Plain text system. Knowledge of LaTeX notation required. Being a plain text system, LaTeX notation is straightforward to create and edit.
|Plain text system. Easy to learn. Notation simple. Being a plain text system, ASCIIMath is very easy to create and edit.
|XML-based. Not easy to create and edit: an editor is required.
|-
|Conversion to Braille
|Output directly to Braille display via screen reader (fn 2)
|ASCIIMath notation is converted to MathML or LaTeX. Please refer to those formats for details.
|Converted to suitable textual format and Brailled using screen reader (fn 3)
|-
|Transmission via TTS
|Notation spoken "as-is" via screen reader (fn 2)
|ASCIIMath notation is converted to MathML or LaTeX. Please refer to those formats for details.
|Converted to suitable textual format and spoken using screen reader. Note that MathPlayer add-on for IE has TTS functionality built-in (fn 3).
|-
|}

'''fn1.'''
MathPlayer claims to do math-to-speech by parsing the MathML, not by parsing TeX. See http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibility.htm where it is stated:

All of these examples were written in Microsoft Word and MathType and exported to MathML using MathType’s “MathPage” technology. MathPage technology was added to MathType in version 5.0. No special work is needed to author the expressions to make them accessible. Any product that exports MathML will produce pages that MathPlayer can speak.

For a larger real life example, see this page. Also, MSN Encarta uses MathML on many of their web pages that contain math, so much of their Math should be accessible using MathPlayer.

'''fn2. '''
The alt attribute of the rendered graphic is spoken and/or Braillled. As LaTeX is a plain text notation, the notation can be spoken and Brailled by the screen reader directly. This does, of course, assume an understanding of LaTeX notation on the part of the screen reader user.

'''fn3. '''
In the case of Internet Explorer, screen readers require the MathPlayer plugin to be installed before MathML is rendered (IE does not include native MathML support). By using MSAA, the screen reader can obtain a textual version of the math notation from MathPlayer, which it can then TTS and Braille. Note that MathPlayer also contains built-in TTS functionality (employing MS SAPI) which can be used to speak the math notation without having to employ a screen reader. See [http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibility.htm] for further details. At time of writing, screen reader support for Firefox is via MSAA and a special custom, Firefox-specific IAccessible2 interface (to reveal text attributes and character positions). Math notation is spoken via a screen reader which interrogates these interfaces.

==Using Java for Curriculum==
===Java Tools for Building Applets for Interactive Demonstration===
These tools can be integrated in or used with Moodle Resources
* Java Sketchpad, http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/JavaSketchpad/About_JavaSketchpad.html, is an applet developed by Key Curriculum Press. The applet has been the focus of quite a bit of discussion and demonstrations and discussions are widely available. An introductory article from the Journal of Online Mathematics can be found here: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/4/?nodeId=508&pa=content&sa=viewDocument. Usage focuses largely on Geometry
* CabriJava, http://www-cabri.imag.fr/cabrijava/, an applet offered by the University of Cabri, also focuses on interactive geometry. Quite a number of examples employing CabriJava can be found here: http://www.mathsnet.net/cabri/index.html.
* Descartes, http://descartes.cnice.mec.es/, is an applet developed under the auspices of the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion Politica Social y Diporte. An English introduction can be found here at http://descartes.cnice.mec.es/ingles/index.html. The Ministery has produced an extensive Mathematics curriculum using Descartes, which is available in English and can be freely downloaded and used. Much of what is available is still only in Spanish so anyone interested in doing translation work please post to the Moodle Math Tools forum.
* Sympl, http://www.sympl.org/, an open source Java application/applet for creating interactive graphs.

===Additional Curricular Use of Applets===
*Euclid's Elements - http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
*Tutorials employing applets (applets can be downloaded and used in Moodle) http://www.analyzemath.com/

===Applet Tools===
*Graphing - http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats/resource/GraphExplorer/
*Geometry Construction - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~jwarren/grace/
*GeoGebra - http://www.geogebra.org/
*Physics Applets for Drawing (PAD) - http://www.wku.edu/pads/ These can make interactive activities that can both check for correctness and give guiding feedback. Includes modules for graphs (2D functions), vectors (even in/out and other lines and arrows and bar-graphs), motion analysis, equation recognition and more. Uses don't have to be just for Physics. Math, of course. VectorPAD can be used for placing markers (as points, lines, small pictures, [http://www.wku.edu/pads/exercise.php?id=mgaazqzoakmqgfrkkmqgaaayo arrows) on a picture], that could be used in almost any subject. They can be incorporating in SCORM packages which can interact with Moodle. There is no Moodle module now (july 2009) for using them directly, but that would add a lot more power (compared to SCORM), like being able to save states, turn on/off feedback, etc.
*GraphApplet 1.05: both calculator and graphapplet - http://www.lundin.info/graphapplet.aspx
*Physlets: large suite of applets about physics but includes [http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physletprob/ch16_datagraph/default.html advanced graphing] too. [http://www.tupo.biz/kurser/javaapplets/Fysik/java/Physlets/CFL/3dimDiag.htm A time dependent 3D example (Swedish!)]

===Java Applet Collections===
* http://cs.jsu.edu/mcis/faculty/leathrum/Mathlets/
* http://www.walter-fendt.de/m14e/

* Probability and Statistics
**http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/pavel/java/dilemma/
**http://lstat.kuleuven.be/java/
**http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/m262/

*http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/murphy/JavaOverview/default.html
*Math and Physics - http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
*Curves - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Java/index.html
*Chaos and Fractals - http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/applets/index.html
*For sale, but extensive - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml

==Mathematics Assessment==

Assessment is a key driver for mathematics. There are a number of ways of getting students to answer mathematical questions through Moodle.
* WebWork, see http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Main_Page http://webwork.math.rochester.edu/docs/docs/, and http://webwork.maa.org/moodle/ is an independent web application for assessing student Math progress, and there is a Moodle Module for interfacing WebWork to Moodle that can be found here: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=332, though the resources on the WeBWork wiki are probably more current as the code in the Moodle CVS has not been updated for some time.
* STACK provides very mathematical questions for the Moodle quiz module. These are supported by the CAS Maxima. The home page for STACK can be found on http://stack.bham.ac.uk/
* WIRIS quizzes [http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle wiris.com/demo-moodle]
**Random variables and graphics
**Automatic evaluation of oen answers
**Syntax checking of answers

==See also==
* [[Mathematics tools FAQ]]
Using Moodle forum discussions:
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=46009 Best practices for teaching Math(s) in Moodle]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=61993 How do you deal with the challenge of writing equations?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62002 How do you deal with the challenge of drawing graphs and diagrams?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62014 How do you deal with the challenge of interactive exercises and simulations?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95950 How can I have a student enter a fraction as an answer?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=127867 What are the components of an exemplary high school Moodle course?]

[[Category:Mathematics]]

Mathematics

2009-12-07T14:00:16Z

Reixarch: /* Tools */ WIRIS demo-site and WIRIS quizzes

==Equation Construction and Display==
===Tools===
There are a variety of tools that are available for the purpose of constructing equations, providing text expressions that can be converted to equations, and displaying equations.

The most common text expression syntax is LaTeX or a derivative with probably the most common form of display being a conversion of the equation to an image file. However, is demonstrated with ASCIIMathML simple text expressions can now be be converted to MathML on the fly.

Some tools for creating and displaying equations on-line that may be of interest to those teaching mathematics are:
* [[ASCIIMathML]], which both converts equations into MathML on the fly and provides a text expression syntax more easily mastered than Tex, though the filter will convert TeX expressions as well. [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106148 The ASCIIMathML 2.0.2 zip] provides all the files necessary for setting ASCIIMathML up as a Moodle filter as well creating run-time graphs with ASCIIsvg. An on-line calculator is also included. Just recently an ASCIIMathML export format for DragMath was added to version 0.7.2, [https://docs.moodle.org/en/DragMath_equation_editor available here], so that you have access to both a GUI and text expression syntax for creating and displaying equations. Quick and GIFless. [http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/asciencepad/asciencepad.html ASciencePad is also available] and consists of htmlarea enhanced with the ASCIIMathML functionality.
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=916 Tim Hunt's Moodle MathTran Module] converts Tex into images on the fly. You can also use [http://www.mathtran.org/wiki/index.php/TeX_image mathtran_img.js] on a page by page basis.
* The [[TeX filter]], which allows [http://www.tug.org/begin.html TeX markup] to be inserted anywhere (e.g. quiz questions, discussion messages, text resources)
* The [[jsMath]] filter, which does a similar job but using [[Javascript]] on the user's computer
* [[Calculated question type]]
* [[DragMath equation editor]], a WYSIWYG equation editor that integrates easily with the Moodle HTML editor.
* [[WIRIS]], is a plugin that easily integrates with the HTML editor several math tools. Test them at [http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/]
** WYSIWYG equation editor. Based on MathML
** Advanced calculator. Integrals, derivatives, limits, ploting in 2D and 3D,...
** Advancaed math quizzes

* MathType, a commercial product created by DSI (the folk who also offer MathPlayer, a plugin many IE users employ). Bob Mathews recently posted [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=93728&parent=549428] that info on MathType can be found at http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/workswith/moodle.htm
Mathematics teachers may also be interested to follow the work of [http://maths.york.ac.uk York University Maths department], who are working on [http://maths.york.ac.uk/serving_maths/ some projects] to augment Moodle, particularly its [[Quiz module]] for online assessment, for example by integrating a system which is able to mark algebraic and trigonometric answers to open-ended questions.

===Accessibility Display Matrix===

{{Expand-section|date=August 2008}}

■ Feature Key appears below the matrix.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!Notation
!Tex/LaTex
!ASCIIMath
!MathML
|-
|Ease of Use
|Plain text system. Knowledge of LaTeX notation required. Being a plain text system, LaTeX notation is straightforward to create and edit.
|Plain text system. Easy to learn. Notation simple. Being a plain text system, ASCIIMath is very easy to create and edit.
|XML-based. Not easy to create and edit: an editor is required.
|-
|Conversion to Braille
|Output directly to Braille display via screen reader (fn 2)
|ASCIIMath notation is converted to MathML or LaTeX. Please refer to those formats for details.
|Converted to suitable textual format and Brailled using screen reader (fn 3)
|-
|Transmission via TTS
|Notation spoken "as-is" via screen reader (fn 2)
|ASCIIMath notation is converted to MathML or LaTeX. Please refer to those formats for details.
|Converted to suitable textual format and spoken using screen reader. Note that MathPlayer add-on for IE has TTS functionality built-in (fn 3).
|-
|}

'''fn1.'''
MathPlayer claims to do math-to-speech by parsing the MathML, not by parsing TeX. See http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibility.htm where it is stated:

All of these examples were written in Microsoft Word and MathType and exported to MathML using MathType’s “MathPage” technology. MathPage technology was added to MathType in version 5.0. No special work is needed to author the expressions to make them accessible. Any product that exports MathML will produce pages that MathPlayer can speak.

For a larger real life example, see this page. Also, MSN Encarta uses MathML on many of their web pages that contain math, so much of their Math should be accessible using MathPlayer.

'''fn2. '''
The alt attribute of the rendered graphic is spoken and/or Braillled. As LaTeX is a plain text notation, the notation can be spoken and Brailled by the screen reader directly. This does, of course, assume an understanding of LaTeX notation on the part of the screen reader user.

'''fn3. '''
In the case of Internet Explorer, screen readers require the MathPlayer plugin to be installed before MathML is rendered (IE does not include native MathML support). By using MSAA, the screen reader can obtain a textual version of the math notation from MathPlayer, which it can then TTS and Braille. Note that MathPlayer also contains built-in TTS functionality (employing MS SAPI) which can be used to speak the math notation without having to employ a screen reader. See [http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibility.htm] for further details. At time of writing, screen reader support for Firefox is via MSAA and a special custom, Firefox-specific IAccessible2 interface (to reveal text attributes and character positions). Math notation is spoken via a screen reader which interrogates these interfaces.

==Using Java for Curriculum==
===Java Tools for Building Applets for Interactive Demonstration===
These tools can be integrated in or used with Moodle Resources
* Java Sketchpad, http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/JavaSketchpad/About_JavaSketchpad.html, is an applet developed by Key Curriculum Press. The applet has been the focus of quite a bit of discussion and demonstrations and discussions are widely available. An introductory article from the Journal of Online Mathematics can be found here: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/4/?nodeId=508&pa=content&sa=viewDocument. Usage focuses largely on Geometry
* CabriJava, http://www-cabri.imag.fr/cabrijava/, an applet offered by the University of Cabri, also focuses on interactive geometry. Quite a number of examples employing CabriJava can be found here: http://www.mathsnet.net/cabri/index.html.
* Descartes, http://descartes.cnice.mec.es/, is an applet developed under the auspices of the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion Politica Social y Diporte. An English introduction can be found here at http://descartes.cnice.mec.es/ingles/index.html. The Ministery has produced an extensive Mathematics curriculum using Descartes, which is available in English and can be freely downloaded and used. Much of what is available is still only in Spanish so anyone interested in doing translation work please post to the Moodle Math Tools forum.
* Sympl, http://www.sympl.org/, an open source Java application/applet for creating interactive graphs.

===Additional Curricular Use of Applets===
*Euclid's Elements - http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
*Tutorials employing applets (applets can be downloaded and used in Moodle) http://www.analyzemath.com/

===Applet Tools===
*Graphing - http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats/resource/GraphExplorer/
*Geometry Construction - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~jwarren/grace/
*GeoGebra - http://www.geogebra.org/
*Physics Applets for Drawing (PAD) - http://www.wku.edu/pads/ These can make interactive activities that can both check for correctness and give guiding feedback. Includes modules for graphs (2D functions), vectors (even in/out and other lines and arrows and bar-graphs), motion analysis, equation recognition and more. Uses don't have to be just for Physics. Math, of course. VectorPAD can be used for placing markers (as points, lines, small pictures, [http://www.wku.edu/pads/exercise.php?id=mgaazqzoakmqgfrkkmqgaaayo arrows) on a picture], that could be used in almost any subject. They can be incorporating in SCORM packages which can interact with Moodle. There is no Moodle module now (july 2009) for using them directly, but that would add a lot more power (compared to SCORM), like being able to save states, turn on/off feedback, etc.
*GraphApplet 1.05: both calculator and graphapplet - http://www.lundin.info/graphapplet.aspx
*Physlets: large suite of applets about physics but includes [http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physletprob/ch16_datagraph/default.html advanced graphing] too. [http://www.tupo.biz/kurser/javaapplets/Fysik/java/Physlets/CFL/3dimDiag.htm A time dependent 3D example (Swedish!)]

===Java Applet Collections===
* http://cs.jsu.edu/mcis/faculty/leathrum/Mathlets/
* http://www.walter-fendt.de/m14e/

* Probability and Statistics
**http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/pavel/java/dilemma/
**http://lstat.kuleuven.be/java/
**http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/m262/

*http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/murphy/JavaOverview/default.html
*Math and Physics - http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
*Curves - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Java/index.html
*Chaos and Fractals - http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/applets/index.html
*For sale, but extensive - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml

==Mathematics Assessment==

Assessment is a key driver for mathematics. There are a number of ways of getting students to answer mathematical questions through Moodle.
* WebWork, see http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Main_Page http://webwork.math.rochester.edu/docs/docs/, and http://webwork.maa.org/moodle/ is an independent web application for assessing student Math progress, and there is a Moodle Module for interfacing WebWork to Moodle that can be found here: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=332, though the resources on the WeBWork wiki are probably more current as the code in the Moodle CVS has not been updated for some time.
* STACK provides very mathematical questions for the Moodle quiz module. These are supported by the CAS Maxima. The home page for STACK can be found on http://stack.bham.ac.uk/

==See also==
* [[Mathematics tools FAQ]]
Using Moodle forum discussions:
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=46009 Best practices for teaching Math(s) in Moodle]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=61993 How do you deal with the challenge of writing equations?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62002 How do you deal with the challenge of drawing graphs and diagrams?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62014 How do you deal with the challenge of interactive exercises and simulations?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95950 How can I have a student enter a fraction as an answer?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=127867 What are the components of an exemplary high school Moodle course?]

[[Category:Mathematics]]

WIRIS

2009-12-07T13:58:33Z

Reixarch: add demo-site and WIRIS quizzes

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS CAS''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
<li>'''WIRIS quizzes''', upgrade of Moodle quizzes with random variables and automatic evaluation of answers</li>
</ol>

==Screenshots==
[[Image:WIRIS_Editor_screenshot_01.png]]

== DEMO site ==
Test all WIRIS tools for Moodle in a demo site (cleaned every 24 hours)
[http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ ]

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [[www.wiris.net]]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>Download WIRIS plugin [http://www.wiris.com/download/moodle/download?file=pluginwiris.zip pluginwiris.zip]</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS==
[http://www.wiris.com/content/view/20/62/lang,en/ WIRIS Editor] and [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/18/58/lang,en/ WIRIS CAS] are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/101/99/lang,en/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

Mathematics

2009-12-07T13:54:43Z

Reixarch: /* Tools */

==Equation Construction and Display==
===Tools===
There are a variety of tools that are available for the purpose of constructing equations, providing text expressions that can be converted to equations, and displaying equations.

The most common text expression syntax is LaTeX or a derivative with probably the most common form of display being a conversion of the equation to an image file. However, is demonstrated with ASCIIMathML simple text expressions can now be be converted to MathML on the fly.

Some tools for creating and displaying equations on-line that may be of interest to those teaching mathematics are:
* [[ASCIIMathML]], which both converts equations into MathML on the fly and provides a text expression syntax more easily mastered than Tex, though the filter will convert TeX expressions as well. [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106148 The ASCIIMathML 2.0.2 zip] provides all the files necessary for setting ASCIIMathML up as a Moodle filter as well creating run-time graphs with ASCIIsvg. An on-line calculator is also included. Just recently an ASCIIMathML export format for DragMath was added to version 0.7.2, [https://docs.moodle.org/en/DragMath_equation_editor available here], so that you have access to both a GUI and text expression syntax for creating and displaying equations. Quick and GIFless. [http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/asciencepad/asciencepad.html ASciencePad is also available] and consists of htmlarea enhanced with the ASCIIMathML functionality.
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=916 Tim Hunt's Moodle MathTran Module] converts Tex into images on the fly. You can also use [http://www.mathtran.org/wiki/index.php/TeX_image mathtran_img.js] on a page by page basis.
* The [[TeX filter]], which allows [http://www.tug.org/begin.html TeX markup] to be inserted anywhere (e.g. quiz questions, discussion messages, text resources)
* The [[jsMath]] filter, which does a similar job but using [[Javascript]] on the user's computer
* [[Calculated question type]]
* [[DragMath equation editor]], a WYSIWYG equation editor that integrates easily with the Moodle HTML editor.
* [[WIRIS]], is a plugin that easily integrates with the HTML editor several math tools
** WYSIWYG equation editor. Based on MathML
** Advanced calculator. Integrals, derivatives, limits, ploting in 2D and 3D,...
** Advancaed math quizzes
** Test those tools at [http://www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/ www.wiris.com/demo-moodle/]
* MathType, a commercial product created by DSI (the folk who also offer MathPlayer, a plugin many IE users employ). Bob Mathews recently posted [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=93728&parent=549428] that info on MathType can be found at http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/workswith/moodle.htm
Mathematics teachers may also be interested to follow the work of [http://maths.york.ac.uk York University Maths department], who are working on [http://maths.york.ac.uk/serving_maths/ some projects] to augment Moodle, particularly its [[Quiz module]] for online assessment, for example by integrating a system which is able to mark algebraic and trigonometric answers to open-ended questions.

===Accessibility Display Matrix===

{{Expand-section|date=August 2008}}

■ Feature Key appears below the matrix.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!Notation
!Tex/LaTex
!ASCIIMath
!MathML
|-
|Ease of Use
|Plain text system. Knowledge of LaTeX notation required. Being a plain text system, LaTeX notation is straightforward to create and edit.
|Plain text system. Easy to learn. Notation simple. Being a plain text system, ASCIIMath is very easy to create and edit.
|XML-based. Not easy to create and edit: an editor is required.
|-
|Conversion to Braille
|Output directly to Braille display via screen reader (fn 2)
|ASCIIMath notation is converted to MathML or LaTeX. Please refer to those formats for details.
|Converted to suitable textual format and Brailled using screen reader (fn 3)
|-
|Transmission via TTS
|Notation spoken "as-is" via screen reader (fn 2)
|ASCIIMath notation is converted to MathML or LaTeX. Please refer to those formats for details.
|Converted to suitable textual format and spoken using screen reader. Note that MathPlayer add-on for IE has TTS functionality built-in (fn 3).
|-
|}

'''fn1.'''
MathPlayer claims to do math-to-speech by parsing the MathML, not by parsing TeX. See http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibility.htm where it is stated:

All of these examples were written in Microsoft Word and MathType and exported to MathML using MathType’s “MathPage” technology. MathPage technology was added to MathType in version 5.0. No special work is needed to author the expressions to make them accessible. Any product that exports MathML will produce pages that MathPlayer can speak.

For a larger real life example, see this page. Also, MSN Encarta uses MathML on many of their web pages that contain math, so much of their Math should be accessible using MathPlayer.

'''fn2. '''
The alt attribute of the rendered graphic is spoken and/or Braillled. As LaTeX is a plain text notation, the notation can be spoken and Brailled by the screen reader directly. This does, of course, assume an understanding of LaTeX notation on the part of the screen reader user.

'''fn3. '''
In the case of Internet Explorer, screen readers require the MathPlayer plugin to be installed before MathML is rendered (IE does not include native MathML support). By using MSAA, the screen reader can obtain a textual version of the math notation from MathPlayer, which it can then TTS and Braille. Note that MathPlayer also contains built-in TTS functionality (employing MS SAPI) which can be used to speak the math notation without having to employ a screen reader. See [http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibility.htm] for further details. At time of writing, screen reader support for Firefox is via MSAA and a special custom, Firefox-specific IAccessible2 interface (to reveal text attributes and character positions). Math notation is spoken via a screen reader which interrogates these interfaces.

==Using Java for Curriculum==
===Java Tools for Building Applets for Interactive Demonstration===
These tools can be integrated in or used with Moodle Resources
* Java Sketchpad, http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/JavaSketchpad/About_JavaSketchpad.html, is an applet developed by Key Curriculum Press. The applet has been the focus of quite a bit of discussion and demonstrations and discussions are widely available. An introductory article from the Journal of Online Mathematics can be found here: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/4/?nodeId=508&pa=content&sa=viewDocument. Usage focuses largely on Geometry
* CabriJava, http://www-cabri.imag.fr/cabrijava/, an applet offered by the University of Cabri, also focuses on interactive geometry. Quite a number of examples employing CabriJava can be found here: http://www.mathsnet.net/cabri/index.html.
* Descartes, http://descartes.cnice.mec.es/, is an applet developed under the auspices of the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion Politica Social y Diporte. An English introduction can be found here at http://descartes.cnice.mec.es/ingles/index.html. The Ministery has produced an extensive Mathematics curriculum using Descartes, which is available in English and can be freely downloaded and used. Much of what is available is still only in Spanish so anyone interested in doing translation work please post to the Moodle Math Tools forum.
* Sympl, http://www.sympl.org/, an open source Java application/applet for creating interactive graphs.

===Additional Curricular Use of Applets===
*Euclid's Elements - http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
*Tutorials employing applets (applets can be downloaded and used in Moodle) http://www.analyzemath.com/

===Applet Tools===
*Graphing - http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats/resource/GraphExplorer/
*Geometry Construction - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~jwarren/grace/
*GeoGebra - http://www.geogebra.org/
*Physics Applets for Drawing (PAD) - http://www.wku.edu/pads/ These can make interactive activities that can both check for correctness and give guiding feedback. Includes modules for graphs (2D functions), vectors (even in/out and other lines and arrows and bar-graphs), motion analysis, equation recognition and more. Uses don't have to be just for Physics. Math, of course. VectorPAD can be used for placing markers (as points, lines, small pictures, [http://www.wku.edu/pads/exercise.php?id=mgaazqzoakmqgfrkkmqgaaayo arrows) on a picture], that could be used in almost any subject. They can be incorporating in SCORM packages which can interact with Moodle. There is no Moodle module now (july 2009) for using them directly, but that would add a lot more power (compared to SCORM), like being able to save states, turn on/off feedback, etc.
*GraphApplet 1.05: both calculator and graphapplet - http://www.lundin.info/graphapplet.aspx
*Physlets: large suite of applets about physics but includes [http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physletprob/ch16_datagraph/default.html advanced graphing] too. [http://www.tupo.biz/kurser/javaapplets/Fysik/java/Physlets/CFL/3dimDiag.htm A time dependent 3D example (Swedish!)]

===Java Applet Collections===
* http://cs.jsu.edu/mcis/faculty/leathrum/Mathlets/
* http://www.walter-fendt.de/m14e/

* Probability and Statistics
**http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/pavel/java/dilemma/
**http://lstat.kuleuven.be/java/
**http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/m262/

*http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/murphy/JavaOverview/default.html
*Math and Physics - http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
*Curves - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Java/index.html
*Chaos and Fractals - http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/applets/index.html
*For sale, but extensive - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml

==Mathematics Assessment==

Assessment is a key driver for mathematics. There are a number of ways of getting students to answer mathematical questions through Moodle.
* WebWork, see http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Main_Page http://webwork.math.rochester.edu/docs/docs/, and http://webwork.maa.org/moodle/ is an independent web application for assessing student Math progress, and there is a Moodle Module for interfacing WebWork to Moodle that can be found here: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=332, though the resources on the WeBWork wiki are probably more current as the code in the Moodle CVS has not been updated for some time.
* STACK provides very mathematical questions for the Moodle quiz module. These are supported by the CAS Maxima. The home page for STACK can be found on http://stack.bham.ac.uk/

==See also==
* [[Mathematics tools FAQ]]
Using Moodle forum discussions:
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=46009 Best practices for teaching Math(s) in Moodle]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=61993 How do you deal with the challenge of writing equations?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62002 How do you deal with the challenge of drawing graphs and diagrams?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62014 How do you deal with the challenge of interactive exercises and simulations?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95950 How can I have a student enter a fraction as an answer?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=127867 What are the components of an exemplary high school Moodle course?]

[[Category:Mathematics]]

WIRIS

2009-02-25T10:05:10Z

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WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS Editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS CAS''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
</ol>

==Screenshots==
[[Image:WIRIS_Editor_screenshot_01.png]]

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [[www.wiris.net]]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>Download WIRIS plugin [http://www.wiris.com/download/moodle/download?file=pluginwiris.zip pluginwiris.zip]</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS==
[http://www.wiris.com/content/view/20/62/lang,en/ WIRIS Editor] and [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/18/58/lang,en/ WIRIS CAS] are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/101/99/lang,en/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

File:WIRIS Editor screenshot 01.png

2009-02-25T10:03:13Z

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WIRIS

2009-02-24T14:24:13Z

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WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS Editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS CAS''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
</ol>

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

You can find the hosted service prices for WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS at [[www.wiris.net]]

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>Download WIRIS plugin [http://www.wiris.com/download/moodle/download?file=pluginwiris.zip pluginwiris.zip]</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS==
[http://www.wiris.com/content/view/20/62/lang,en/ WIRIS Editor] and [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/18/58/lang,en/ WIRIS CAS] are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/101/99/lang,en/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

Mathematics

2008-11-10T05:47:15Z

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==Equation Construction and Display==
===Tools===
There are a variety of tools that are available for the purpose of constructing equations, providing text expressions that can be converted to equations, and displaying equations.

The most common text expression syntax is LaTeX or a derivative with probably the most common form of display being a conversion of the equation to an image file. However, is demonstrated with ASCIIMathML simple text expressions can now be be converted to MathML on the fly.

Some tools for creating and displaying equations on-line that may be of interest to those teaching mathematics are:
* [[ASCIIMathML]], which both converts equations into MathML on the fly and provides a text expression syntax more easily mastered than Tex, though the filter will convert TeX expressions as well. [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106148 The ASCIIMathML 2.0.2 zip] provides all the files necessary for setting ASCIIMathML up as a Moodle filter as well creating run-time graphs with ASCIIsvg. An on-line calculator is also included. Just recently an ASCIIMathML export format for DragMath was added to version 0.7.2, [https://docs.moodle.org/en/DragMath_equation_editor available here], so that you have access to both a GUI and text expression syntax for creating and displaying equations. Quick and GIFless. [http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/asciencepad/asciencepad.html ASciencePad is also available] and consists of htmlarea enhanced with the ASCIIMathML functionality.
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=916 Tim Hunt's Moodle MathTran Module] converts Tex into images on the fly. You can also use [http://www.mathtran.org/wiki/index.php/TeX_image mathtran_img.js] on a page by page basis.
* The [[TeX filter]], which allows [http://www.tug.org/begin.html TeX markup] to be inserted anywhere (e.g. quiz questions, discussion messages, text resources)
* The [[jsMath]] filter, which does a similar job but using [[Javascript]] on the user's computer
* [[Calculated question type]]
* [[DragMath equation editor]], a WYSIWYG equation editor that integrates easily with the Moodle HTML editor.
* [[WIRIS]], is a plugin that easily integrates with the HTML editor several math tools
** WYSIWYG equation editor. Based on MathML
** Advanced calculator. Integrals, derivatives, limits, ploting in 2D and 3D,...

Mathematics teachers may also be interested to follow the work of [http://maths.york.ac.uk York University Maths department], who are working on [http://maths.york.ac.uk/serving_maths/ some projects] to augment Moodle, particularly its [[Quiz module]] for online assessment, for example by integrating a system which is able to mark algebraic and trigonometric answers to open-ended questions.

===Accessibility Display Matrix===

{{Expand-section|date=August 2008}}

■ Feature Key appears below the matrix.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
!Notation
!Tex/LaTex
!ASCIIMath
!MathML
|-
|Ease of Use
|Plain text system. Knowledge of LaTeX notation required. Being a plain text system, LaTeX notation is straightforward to create and edit.
|Plain text system. Easy to learn. Notation simple. Being a plain text system, ASCIIMath is very easy to create and edit.
|XML-based. Not easy to create and edit: an editor is required.
|-
|Conversion to Braille
|Output directly to Braille display via screen reader (fn 2)
|ASCIIMath notation is converted to MathML or LaTeX. Please refer to those formats for details.
|Converted to suitable textual format and Brailled using screen reader (fn 3)
|-
|Transmission via TTS
|Notation spoken "as-is" via screen reader (fn 2)
|ASCIIMath notation is converted to MathML or LaTeX. Please refer to those formats for details.
|Converted to suitable textual format and spoken using screen reader. Note that MathPlayer add-on for IE has TTS functionality built-in (fn 3).
|-
|}

'''fn1.'''
MathPlayer claims to do math-to-speech by parsing the MathML, not by parsing TeX. See http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibility.htm where it is stated:

All of these examples were written in Microsoft Word and MathType and exported to MathML using MathType’s “MathPage” technology. MathPage technology was added to MathType in version 5.0. No special work is needed to author the expressions to make them accessible. Any product that exports MathML will produce pages that MathPlayer can speak.

For a larger real life example, see this page. Also, MSN Encarta uses MathML on many of their web pages that contain math, so much of their Math should be accessible using MathPlayer.

'''fn2. '''
The alt attribute of the rendered graphic is spoken and/or Braillled. As LaTeX is a plain text notation, the notation can be spoken and Brailled by the screen reader directly. This does, of course, assume an understanding of LaTeX notation on the part of the screen reader user.

'''fn3. '''
In the case of Internet Explorer, screen readers require the MathPlayer plugin to be installed before MathML is rendered (IE does not include native MathML support). By using MSAA, the screen reader can obtain a textual version of the math notation from MathPlayer, which it can then TTS and Braille. Note that MathPlayer also contains built-in TTS functionality (employing MS SAPI) which can be used to speak the math notation without having to employ a screen reader. See [http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/tech/accessibility.htm] for further details. At time of writing, screen reader support for Firefox is via MSAA and a special custom, Firefox-specific IAccessible2 interface (to reveal text attributes and character positions). Math notation is spoken via a screen reader which interrogates these interfaces.

==Using Java for Curriculum==
===Java Tools for Building Applets for Interactive Demonstration===
These tools can be integrated in or used with Moodle Resources
* Java Sketchpad, http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/JavaSketchpad/About_JavaSketchpad.html, is an applet developed by Key Curriculum Press. The applet has been the focus of quite a bit of discussion and demonstrations and discussions are widely available. An introductory article from the Journal of Online Mathematics can be found here: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/4/?nodeId=508&pa=content&sa=viewDocument. Usage focuses largely on Geometry
* CabriJava, http://www-cabri.imag.fr/cabrijava/, an applet offered by the University of Cabri, also focuses on interactive geometry. Quite a number of examples employing CabriJava can be found here: http://www.mathsnet.net/cabri/index.html.
* Descartes, http://descartes.cnice.mec.es/, is an applet developed under the auspices of the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion Politica Social y Diporte. An English introduction can be found here at http://w3.cnice.mec.es/Descartes/Ingles/index.html. The Ministery has produced an extensive Mathematics curriculum using Descartes, which is available in English and can be freely downloaded and used. Much of what is available is still only in Spanish so anyone interested in doing translation work please post to the Moodle Math Tools forum.

===Additional Curricular Use of Applets===
*Euclid's Elements - http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
*Tutorials employing applets (applets can be downloaded and used in Moodle) http://www.analyzemath.com/

===Applet Tools===
*Graphing - http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats/resource/GraphExplorer/
*Geometry Construction - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~jwarren/grace/
*GeoGebra - http://www.geogebra.org/

===Java Applet Collections===
* http://cs.jsu.edu/mcis/faculty/leathrum/Mathlets/
* http://www.walter-fendt.de/m14e/

* Probability and Statistics
**http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/pavel/java/dilemma/
**http://lstat.kuleuven.be/java/
**http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/m262/

*http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/murphy/JavaOverview/default.html
*Math and Physics - http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
*Curves - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Java/index.html
*Chaos and Fractals - http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/applets/index.html
*For sale, but extensive - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml

==Mathematics Assessment==

Assessment is a key driver for mathematics. There are a number of ways of getting students to answer mathematical questions through Moodle.
* WebWork, see http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Main_Page http://webwork.math.rochester.edu/docs/docs/, and http://webwork.maa.org/moodle/ is an independent web application for assessing student Math progress, and there is a Moodle Module for interfacing WebWork to Moodle that can be found here: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=332, though the resources on the WeBWork wiki are probably more current as the code in the Moodle CVS has not been updated for some time.
* STACK provides very mathematical questions for the Moodle quiz module. These are supported by the CAS Maxima. The home page for STACK can be found on http://stack.bham.ac.uk/

==See also==
* [[Mathematics tools FAQ]]
Using Moodle forum discussions:
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=46009 Best practices for teaching Math(s) in Moodle]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=61993 How do you deal with the challenge of writing equations?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62002 How do you deal with the challenge of drawing graphs and diagrams?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62014 How do you deal with the challenge of interactive exercises and simulations?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95950 How can I have a student enter a fraction as an answer?]

[[Category:Mathematics]]

WIRIS

2008-11-10T05:35:39Z

Reixarch:

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com wiris.com]

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS Editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS CAS''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
</ol>

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin.
<ol>
<li>Download WIRIS plugin [http://www.wiris.com/download/moodle/download?file=pluginwiris.zip pluginwiris.zip]</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS==
[http://www.wiris.com/content/view/20/62/lang,en/ WIRIS Editor] and [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/18/58/lang,en/ WIRIS CAS] are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/101/99/lang,en/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

WIRIS

2008-11-09T14:26:24Z

Reixarch:

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education.

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS Editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS CAS''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
</ol>

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin. Unzip the Plugin zip available from at your Moodle root folder.
<ol>
<li>Download WIRIS plugin [http://www.wiris.com/download/moodle/download?file=pluginwiris.zip pluginwiris.zip]</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

===Test page===
Check your installation at http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS==
WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/101/99/lang,en/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are available. Following installation instructions connects your Moodle server with the DEMO service.

WIRIS

2008-11-09T13:57:47Z

Reixarch: New page: WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education. [http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools <ol> <li>'''WI...

WIRIS is a suite of tools for mathematics education.

[http://www.wiris.com/moodle/ WIRIS Plugin], is the component connecting a Moodle server with the different WIRIS tools
<ol>
<li>'''WIRIS Editor''', WYSIWYG formula editor. Based on MathML</li>
<li>'''WIRIS CAS''', an online powerfull calculator</li>
</ol>

==WIRIS Plugin==
Plugin connecting WIRIS tools with a Moodle server.

===Pricing - Licenses===
WIRIS Plugin is free. This component is useless without being linked to the commercial tools Editor and CAS.

===Automatic installer===
There is an automatic installer available for WIRIS Plugin. Unzip the Plugin zip available from at your Moodle root folder.
<ol>
<li>Download WIRIS plugin [http://www.wiris.com/download/moodle/download?file=pluginwiris.zip pluginwiris.zip]</li>
<li>Extract it on your Moodle root directory</li>
<li>Open with your browser: http://your.server/moodle_path/pluginwiris/install.php</li>
<li>Follow the installation steps. '''Important'''! Apache user must have write permisions on moodle directory!</li></ol>

To install Check your installation at ../moodle/pluginwiris/test.php

===Test page===
Check your installation at ../moodle/pluginwiris/test.php

==WIRIS Editor==
WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are commercial products. They are available as a hosted service. Check [http://www.wiris.com/content/view/101/99/lang,en/ price list]. Those services can also be hosted in the Moodle server. It is only reasonable to host the service in your server if you are running a quite big Moodle installation.

FREE DEMO service of WIRIS Editor and WIRIS CAS are available. The automatic installer for everybody to easily test our tools.