Using the Equation
Editor
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Slide 1 Slide notes: Select the Build tab |
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Slide 2 Slide notes: Select the Assessments Tool
under located under Course Content. Select the QUIZ (in this case select Equation Quiz) |
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Slide 3 Slide notes: Select the Create Questions button |
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Slide 4 Slide notes: Choose multiple choice type of question |
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Slide 5 Slide notes: Type the title in the title box and the question in the Question text area. |
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Slide 6 Slide notes: From the Insert equation drop-down list, select the New option and select the Go icon. |
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Slide 7 Slide notes: The Equation Editor screen appears. |
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Slide 8 Slide notes: In the Title text box, enter a title for the equation. By default, the title of your first equation is eqn_1 followed by eqn_2, and so on. |
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Slide 16 Slide notes: Type “x=” on your keyboard. |
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Slide 10 Slide notes: Select the first template icon, which looks like a fraction. |
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Slide 11 Slide notes: 7.With the red cursor in the upper box, type -b |
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Slide 12 Slide notes: Select the Symbol Palette icon
to the right of the template icons. (button is located second to the last
button) Select the ± symbol. Close the Symbol Palette window by selecting the Close button. |
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Slide 14 Slide notes: Select the square root
template icon. With the red cursor still in the small box within the square root symbol, select the fifth template icon from the left which looks like a number raised to an exponential power. |
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Slide 16 Slide notes: Click inside the box to place
the red cursor inside the box and type b Click inside the exponent box to place the red cursor inside the box and type 2 |
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Slide 17 Slide notes: Be sure that the blue outline
box encloses b2 only, not the whole numerator of the fraction. Press the minus key on the keypad on the
right side of your keyboard. |
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Slide 18 Slide notes: Type in – 4ac |
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Slide 19 Slide notes: Click inside the small box in the denominator to place the red cursor within the box. |
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Slide 20 Slide notes: 26.To insert the equation
into your assessment (or e-mail, discussion message, etc), select the Insert
button. Note: If you want to save the equation as a MathML file in the My Files area of the Content Manager or File Manager tool, select the Save button. |
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Slide 21 Slide notes: The equation has been assigned an id and is inserted. |
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Slide 22 Slide notes: Create the answers or choices
for the question Select the Save button at the bottom of the page |
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Slide 24 Slide notes: Select Preview to view the question and the equation |
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