Adapt Learning Community: Can't get math content to appear

Hi,

I have loaded MathJax into the authoring tool. Then I tried putting the following into a text component:

\$x^n + y^n = z^n\$

\$ x^2 \$

$$\frac{{7GMm}}{{8{{(3.5R)}^2}}}$$

Then I saved and clicked Preview. The above math expressions didn't get displayed as math but exactly as shown above.

Does anyone know how I can include math content and display correctly?

Hello :)

How did you load up the library? If you haven't already, you may want to try out this extension: https://github.com/cgkineo/adapt-mathJax

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Hello Tom,

I downloaded the 'adapt-mathJax-master' winzip file from the link you mentioned and uploaded through the plugin manager.

Is that right?

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Hi there,

It looks as though that your backslashes are being escaped when they don't need to be. You only need to use double backslashes \\ when directly editing JSON. The following works fine for me in the authoring tool:

\(x^n + y^n = z^n\)
\( x^2 \)
$$\frac{{7GMm}}{{8{{(3.5R)}^2}}}$$

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Hi Tom,

Thanks for your suggestion. I tried removing one slash just like what you showed but the preview still didn't show the math expressions.

Is there some json file I need to modify?

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There's no extra configuration required in the authoring tool. I would just make sure that you're on version 0.1.2 of MathJax and that it's definitely enabled in the course's Manage extensions section:

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My Plugin Management screen shows:

Inside the course, the manage extensions section shows:

What I put inside a text component:

Anything else I missed?

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My original Authoring Tool was a vagrant install. After doing a 'developer's install' and adding MathJax extension, I finally can see math being displayed.

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Thanks for checking back in, I'm glad you managed to sort it.

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