Mathematics in WebCT III

Bill Moss

Clemson University

Clemson, SC USA

Presentation Content

• Part One: Browser Issues

• Quiz Tool

• Math Functions in Calculated Questions

References

• Mathematics in WebCT

• Mathematics in WebCT II

• Mathematics in WebCT III

http://www.math.clemson.edu/~bmoss

Mathematics in WebCT II

• Browser Issues: MathML

• Word and LaTeX to PDF

• LaTeX to HTML

• Viewing Tex: IBM techexplorer

• Viewing MathML: techexplorer, Mozilla, WebEQ

Mathematics in WebCT II

• WebCT Tools: content pages, discussions, mail, quizzes

• Interactive Content: CAS, applets, plugins

Mathematics in WebCT II.5

• Content pages

• Calculated Quiz Questions

• MAA, MathDL, JOMA

• MathML and WebEQ

• For Wont of a MIME type Portability Was Lost …

Rendering Math in WebCT

• HTML + GIF

• HTML + TtH

• HTML + WebEQ

Demo: WebCT 2001 WebEQ

Future Rendering Methods

• Internet Explorer 5.5 + MathPlayer

• Netscape/Mozilla + MathML module

Demo: WebCT 2001 Mozilla

For Wont of a MIME Type …

Paul Topping, Design Science: Internet Explorer and Mozilla currently disagree on the MIME type with which an XHTML page containing <math> elements should be served. Right now, that is the only thing stopping a single page being rendered in Mozilla and IE 5.5 with MathPlayer.

MathML Authoring Methods

• MathType 5

• Tex4Moz

• TtM

MathType 5 Functionality

• Insert inline and display eqns L/R #

• Insert eqn # or reference

• Insert/Modify chapter/section break

• Format/Update eqns #’s

• Format/Convert/Export eqns

• Export to MathPage

Export to MathPage Options

• GIF: IE5, all browsers (win/mac/linux)

• MathML• MathPlayer (IE5.5)• WebEQ• techexplorer• Amaya• Mozilla

Respondus Properties

• Create quizzes with math as GIF’s

• Set quiz properties

• Upload and download to server

• Quiz analysis

Demo: WebCT 2001 WebEQ

Demo: Respondus 1.0

WebCT 3.x Math Functions

• abs, int, sqrt

• sin, cos, atan2

• exp, log

Sun Class java.lang.Math

• abs, ceil, floor, IEEEremainder

• random, rint, round,sqrt

• cos, sin, tan

• exp, log

• acos, asin, atan, atan2

• max, min, pow

VNI JNL 1.0 Class Sfun

• cot

• sinh, cosh, tanh

• acosh, asinh, atanh

• erf, erfc, gamma

• log10, logGamma

• nearestInteger, sign

VNI JNL 1.0 Class Statistics

• average, median, standardDeviation, variance

• minimum, maximum

• range, skew, slope

• kurtosis, linearFit