This site features an online LaTeX editor that's easy to use. No installation is necessary, all you need is abrowser. The tool supports real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
This tool is designed to help writing mathematical content such as equations, solutions to problems for course assignments, math projects, math research papers, lecture notes, and any other document that requires LaTex based equations.
Technical Requirements:
Any browser
Identify Major Learning Goals:
To provide users and mainly students with online LaTeX editor with open access to hundreds of templates in order to create personal LaTeX based pages.
Target Student Population:
Undergraduate and graduate math students and researchers/professors/mathematicians/scientists.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Basic knowledge of TeX coding.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
This site provides a great online LaTex editor for users who are working on math assignments, projects, research papers, and writing math textbooks. It also gives an open access alternative to the expensive classical LaTeX editors that need to be downloaded on your PC. It provides the online editor fully free for personal uses which is very good for many students and independent researchers who cannot afford the high costs of other LaTeX editor. This site also offers other options for users such as it supports real-time collaboration. All the users need is to do is log in using any of their available accounts in IEEE, Google, Twitter, or ORCID. If they do not have one of those accounts, they can register a new account easily. The left hand side of the site gives the editable LaTeX code and the right hand is the compiled version. That way the user can see both simultaneously. The templates avaible allow the user to start with a style that is likely to be similar to what the user wants to create.
Concerns:
None.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Both instructor and student can use this site preparing lecture notes, assignments, research and class projects, and dissertation/thesis for masters or PhD. Since the site has the instant compiler, it will be easy for the student to learn the proper syntax of LaTex.
The site also offers the use of Rich Editor that makes writing manuscripts even easier.
Concerns:
None.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
Students and instructors alike can access this tool easily with any browser. All they need is an internet connection. Once logged in, the user can either start a new document or open one that has already been created by the user. The icons for text creation are pretty self explanatory and there is a hover tag for each one.
Concerns:
It would be nice to have a help button that goes over the syntax of LaTeX for each of the main equation types that are commonly used.
Creative Commons:
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