{"id":6910,"date":"2020-09-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T17:22:45","slug":"mathtype-now-available-for-everyone-everywhere-google-docs-microsoft-office-and-moodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/09\/07\/mathtype-now-available-for-everyone-everywhere-google-docs-microsoft-office-and-moodle\/","title":{"rendered":"MathType now available for everyone everywhere: Google Docs, Microsoft Office, and Moodle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Swarthmore ITS has just upgraded our MathType license to allow for easy equation creation by faculty and students using Microsoft Office, Google Docs, and Moodle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MathType is an interactive equation editor that makes it simple to insert mathematical notation into documents.  ChemType, a chemical editor, is also included in our subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example1.png\" alt=\"Example MathType equation\" class=\"wp-image-6911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example1.png 570w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example1-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example1-190x60.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption>Example MathType equation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Handwriting Recognition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the notable new features of MathType is handwriting recognition.  Draw math notation with a stylus or even your mouse and MathType will typeset your work.  In our tests, we found the accuracy was good even with less than ideal handwriting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example-1024x551.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of MathType Handwriting Recognition Example\" class=\"wp-image-6912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example-1536x826.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example-112x60.png 112w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example.png 1830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Handwriting Recognition Example<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details and installation instructions, visit the MathType page on the ITS KnowledgeBase help site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swarthmore ITS has just upgraded our MathType license to allow for easy equation creation by faculty and students using Microsoft Office, Google Docs, and Moodle. MathType is an interactive equation editor that makes it simple to insert mathematical notation into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2020\/09\/07\/mathtype-now-available-for-everyone-everywhere-google-docs-microsoft-office-and-moodle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MathType now available for everyone everywhere: Google Docs, Microsoft Office, and Moodle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":6912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,113,80,97,114],"tags":[384,90,243,383,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-6910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-facultystaff","9":"category-moodle","10":"category-software","11":"category-students","12":"tag-chemtype","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-math","15":"tag-mathtype","16":"tag-software","18":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mathype_example.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1Ns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}