How do I type in RISE quiz question and answer? Please tell me its possible.

Thanks for explaining, John! The broadest point to all of this is that there has to be an equation editor, and it should be able to read LaTeX or MathML and be accessible. If that feature was available in Rise (and other products), it would open a world of possibilities as that feature is really needed by anyone building curriculum in the STEM fields.

Hi Ashley, Have there been any developments with introducing an equation editor (or the ability to convert LaTeX) in Rise? We're still inserting equations as images but it's really not ideal as it is terrible for readability (images are automatically scaled down on small screens), as well as accessibility. Cheers,Mich

I was talking about this about 5 years ago and it's very disappointing that Latex or Math ML still aren't supported yet. Even Blackboard LMS supports these basic maths equation languages.

Ok, so now I've explored copy and paste as well ASCII codes for both Greek symbols and exponents. Copy and paste as well as ASCII Alt230 works for µ. However, copy and paste does not work for exponents. ASCII Alt252 only delivers 10ⁿ . There is no way to actually type 10 to the power -6 in RISE. Why is this? or am I missing something. Its very reminiscent of when I first became excited about Articulate and then Storyline, only to discover science and math educators needs have been largely overlooked. Submitting feature requests also never solved this basic type setting issue. I can solve the problem by painting my equations in Latex, doing a screengrab and inserting image into RISE question section. BUT this does not work when working with RISE answer section. There, it only expects text.

Hi Alphonso, Math is not my forte so my exponent formatting may be a little confused - but I was able to type 10−⁶ in a Word doc and then copy and paste that into Rise as an answer. So that's the copy/paste element that seemed to work for me. The minus sign I wasn't able to bring higher than that to the superscript level, but not sure if you need it there? The superscript 6 did work for copy/paste though.

typing math symbols and exponents in RISE quiz option?? How do you do this?

JamieTraynor-26
Community Member
7 years ago
Been waiting almost a year for some solution to math equations. Hoping it moves to the top of the priority list. Whether it is an equation editor in Rise or the ability to embed LaTex would be very helpful, mostly for accessibility but also for design. If you have an equation in the middle of a sentence adding the equation as a graphic is not visually appealing (especially if there are more than one equation in a paragraph). Thank you.
Anh-ChiFurey
Community Member
6 years ago
Hi Allison - Can you share with us whether math support is even on the roadmap yet?
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  6 years ago
  Hi Ann-Chi,
  
  I'm sorry, I don't have any updates on this that I can share right now. However, you're now subscribed to this conversation which means as we share updates here, you’ll automatically be notified.
  
  In the meantime, if there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know!
alphonsohendric
Community Member
6 years ago
Just wondering. Maybe we tackling this problem from the wrong end. We expecting the team members (staff) of Articulate to prioritize Maths and Science requests. But if the bulk (or all of them) fall into the category: "Math is not my forte", then who is actually representing our case in the meetings where feature categories are being discussed and decided upon? I realize this is a huge assumption on my part but then again, if my assumption is wrong - why do we have to wait five years, or more, before we can type a half decent Maths and Science equation into our RISE and Articulate work?

I'm changing my original feature request of two years ago as follows:

"Articulate, please consider appointing a Maths and Science specialist onto your development team."
- AllisonLaMotte
  Staff
  6 years ago
  Hi Alphonso,
  
  Thanks for your feedback. I sense that you're frustrated that this feature hasn't been implemented and I totally get it. The waiting game is never easy!
  
  However, I want you to know that we're doing our very best to bring our users the features they want and need as quickly as possible.
  
  We receive hundreds of feature requests every week, so prioritizing them is no small task and we take it very seriously. Here's an inside look at how that process works.
  
  Let me know if you have any other questions!
  - Anh-ChiFurey
    Community Member
    6 years ago
    That’s a form-letter response...
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
8 years ago
Hi Alphonso,

Are you looking specifically for entering in the superscript of this equation? I don't know the hot keys to insert those on my Mac keyboard, but I was able to copy and paste them from a Word document into Rise without a problem.

Let us know if typing isn't working for you (and if you know the hot keys to insert those symbols) or if the copy/paste option will also work!
- VeronicaVolz
  Community Member
  8 years ago
  Hi Ashley,
  
  How were you able to do the superscript? I'm using a Mac and tried copy/paste from Word to Rise and it didn't work.
alphonsohendric
Community Member
8 years ago
Thanks Ashley

Never thought of copy and paste from Word. Will try that now for both Mu symbol and exponents. Actually I should also try using ASCII code for Mu i.e. Alt 230 (µ).
alphonsohendric
Community Member
8 years ago
Ashley, you motivate to me try one more time. I did copy and paste from Word and mine didn't work. I see you using a Mac so I'll shift away from my Windows laptop and move over to my Macbook Air and see if that works. Keeping fingers crossed.
AlyssaGomez
Staff
8 years ago
Thanks for that update, Alphonso. Keep us posted on how you make out!
alphonsohendric
Community Member
8 years ago
Hi Alyssa and Ashley

Its been a while but this morning I made the shift to my Macbook Air and tried the copy and paste from Word. Did not not desired result for exponents.

This is what I get when I copy and paste equation produced in Word equation editor

1.00 "x" 〖10〗^6

And this is what I get when I copy and paste without using Word equation editor

1.00 x 106

Is there no anyone else in the RISE community who teaches Physics and Maths, who has solved this issue?
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
8 years ago
Thanks Alphonso - I'm not familiar with the Word equation editor - when I was testing I just looked at adding in those symbols and superscripts just using the insert option in a Word doc and a Google doc and copy and paste it from there. It did come through to ELH and also into my Rise course. It seems that the Word equation editor is including some additional formatting options that are being striped out as a part of the copy/paste process?

A colleague was able to find some unicode characters for the multiplication symbol and the superscript 6 that worked (just a bit of web research to track these down).
MichelleAllan
Community Member
8 years ago
Hi Alphonso and Ashley,

We're also super keen to see equation support in Rise — we provide courses relating to finance, which means lots of equations.

While there are alt-codes/copy-paste methods to insert math symbols like multiplication and division signs, one of the more basic formatting techniques we require is for division (see attached example), which can't be forced (using "payroll/turnover" is not a realistic alternative, especially when the formulas get longer and more complicated).

Previously we were using MathJax to code our formulas in HTML, which was working well for us. Perhaps we could see a MathJax 'block' introduced? But a user-friendly text editor like in Microsoft Word (see attached screenshot) would probably be more universally accessible.

Cheers,
Mich