[Athen] TTS for Algebra

[Wink Harner]

Hi Neal,

it's entirely possible that you could arrange with text help to get a free
teacher's license – it used to be free, in any case – of Equatio for this
purpose, at least for the purposes of testing whether or not it would work
with web assign (I think it will), you could at the very least, petition
for a free copy for your office & wherever the testing center is if that's
where the test is being given.  Or perhaps you could get one for the
student who needs a copy of it to take a test online.

Here's a link:
https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/company/education-blog/november-2017/equatio-is-now-free-for-teachers/

Not to throw too many rocks in the road, but as far as I know, Equatio only
works in Chrome, and WebAssign does not work in Chrome. Perhaps someone
with more experience in the online testing environment has
another workaround or suggestion.

Wink Harner



On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 5:53 AM Sorensen, Neal B <neal.sorensen at mnsu.edu>
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> Hello all,

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> I have a student who came to see me a while back who is struggling in a

> developmental algebra course using WebAssign. They asked about

> text-to-speech to use with homework and exams. I have seen Equatio in

> action (thanks for Susan’s webinar), and have shown it around the office.

> Right now we don’t have any licenses of that purchased, but we are

> considering showing it to the math department to hopefully entice them into

> buying it. Until then, I’m still stuck with a student who could use

> mathematical TTS. Are there any other tools out there that this student

> could use to read math on the WebAssign platform?

>

> I was considering Copy/Pasting LaTeX into CAR, but the student doesn’t

> have a computer of their own to install it on. They are a non-traditional

> student and not very comfortable with computers… So I’m at a bit of a loss.

> Any ideas?

>

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