MathQuill is a Bit Quirky
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I am new to CANVAS. I was exploring today, attempting to create a quiz. CANVAS has some very nice features for those purposes. Being an instructor in mathematics, I stumbled upon the MathQuill tool in attempting to build test items. It does some things very well, but I really got a little rattled when I could not find a facility for creating a FRACTION. Fractions are a pretty basic mathematical concept.
I opened a chat session with a very attentive representative who researched my query. She determined that there is a pseudo expression for creting a fraction (\frac{numerator}{denominator}). It does work and produces beautiful text. Apparently there are similar expressions for creating other constructs. I can work around this quirkiness for creating the test items. However, this simply will not work as a methodology for my middle schoolers to create their fractional responses.
What I find really surprising is that I cannot find that someone had already discovered this. Perhaps some member of the design team will read this and address it. #Mathquill
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