ShortMath

Maintained by George Schaathun, André Storhaug

A question type for writing beautiful mathematical expressions using MathQuill. This question type is an extension of the shortanswer question type.

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Supports Moodle 3.5-3.11 See all versions

Latest release: 4 years ago

Installations: 259

Downloads (last 90 days): 29

Frankenstyle name: qtype_shortmath

Question types

Plugin is looking for new maintainers. I am not presently able to update the plugin for Moodle 4, but if you want to make pull requests in github I shall be happy to include them and/or pass on the ownership.

What is it?

The plugin is based on the short answer question type, but the students enter their response in a maths editor. The student interface is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

The editor interface is provided by MathQuill, which produces LaTeX code that is used as the internal representation. Rendering relies on MathJax which provides mathematically correct visual rendering.

ShortMath has been designed for use with JazzQuiz, where auto-grading is not used. However, if desired, auto-grading based on syntactic string match on the LaTeX code is supported.