24 July 2019Barbara Landsberg
Meet Callaghan (Cal) Shepherd, a 10-year-old self-confessed maths nerd who was introduced to EquatIO for the first time this week.
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10 July 2019Deanna Toxopeus, Itinerant Teacher of Assistive Technology, OCDSB
This is a guest blog post from Deanna Toxopeus, an Itinerant Teacher of Assistive Technology at Ottawa Carleton District School Board. The original can be found on Deanna's personal blog: Muffins and Shenanigans.
A little over a year ago my son was diagnosed with as being gifted, with a learning disability. Specifically, he struggled with short term memory. And, like many people with LD, organization is a challenge. I joke that God doesn’t even know where the papers my son is supposed to bring home from school have gone. I then comment that apples don’t fall far from trees, as I am also gifted LD, although my LD is in spelling.
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11 June 2019John McGowan, Product Manager
Last fall we announced the first phase of our French language support in EquatIO for Google. Today, we are pleased to release the final piece of the puzzle, making EquatIO for Google fully functional in French!
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03 June 2019John McGowan, Product Manager
We have released a new update to EquatIO for Windows and EquatIO for Mac, which enables Microsoft Word users to edit equations built with MathType and the Microsoft Equation Editor directly with EquatIO and even reinsert them as Microsoft Word equations.
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16 May 2019Jason Carroll, Global Product Manager
In case you missed it, to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google announced several new updates to promote digital accessibility and inclusion for students with learning disabilities. In particular, they highlighted new partnerships for locked mode in Quizzes in Google Forms. Locked mode was beta released in the Fall of last year, allowing teachers to create Quizzes without the worry of students being able to search the web.
But what about students who need additional support for reading, writing and math during assessments? That’s where Read&Write for Google ChromeTM and EquatIO for Google® come in! Both Read&Write and EquatIO are now available for use while in locked mode.
Read on to learn more.
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14 March 2019John McGowan, Product Manager
The overall goal of EquatIO is to make it delightful, intuitive, and fun for students to communicate their thought processes. While a lot of our initial EquatIO releases and updates focused on supports for Middle and High School students, we wanted to spend some time creating features that would support Elementary School students as well. Keep reading to see what we’ve come up with!
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