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This is how he accesses the actual textbook online from his mac (well any apple device) It works BEST on the imac. That's a link to the actual text. I don't know if you can access it or not. Connexus doesn't recommend apple products as their curriculum does not fully support apple products. Their tech support has been excellent at solving any issues we have within their system. The biggest issues we have are for things (like state assessments) that are not a part of their system but are outside (different website). For quizzes and assessments that are taken within the system, they use something in similar to what is in Word (I think) where you add the sub & super scripts when needed -- as well as all the symbols. It's a pain - tedious also but then it is a pain for windows users also. lol. Usually they have the problem then a "message" area that has all symbols that you click and it inserts into your problem/text. He's pretty quick at doing it but it would take me a lot longer. They do have the option of writing out those problems and emailing them to the teacher instead of using that. You can print out the entire quiz/test, scan it and webmail to the teacher. To me that would be easier, but he prefers doing it the other way. However, you can call them and ask for tech support... they can probably give you the details that you want and can understand -- I'm not tech savvy LOL I'm pretty sure they will talk to you even though you aren't enrolled if you say you are a "potential" parent and want to find out details before enrolling. Their tech support is the best I've EVER encountered anywhere. 1 800 382-6010 The only consistent problem we've had is with Discovery Education, in particular with his Science class. The curriculum uses Discovery Education's website for a lot of their videos. Practically every lesson has a video at their site. It's horrible for viewing them -- we have a windows pc and he usually just uses it to watch those videos. It's a true pain to access them on any mac. On an IPAD you absolutely cannot access them at all. Overall, for online education it's pretty darn flawless. BUT they've been doing this for 10 years and have worked out many of the problems. This is our first year and I'm impressed with the quality of the curriculum and how few problems there are. My older 2 went to St X and this is at least that comprehensive/challenging if not more. And it's not $10K a year! It's FREE if your state has it as a charter school. The only thing you pay for is your internet. paper (if needed) , printer (if needed) and scanner. :-) If you don't have a printer or scanner, you can mail the teachers any materials and they pay the postage. They provide everything else: textbooks, workbooks, art supplies,science/biology lab "stuff", PE "stuff"-- everything. Kentucky doesn't have it yet. I'm in Indiana and we do. Has been here for 2 years -- this being the second year. Hope that helps! On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 16, 2012, at 3:46 PM, JJ wrote: > > My son attends an online charter school -- Connections Academy. He > connects using his ipod, ipad or Mac -- sometimes using the Apple TV. If > he's at the library or at a friends' he can still do schoolwork! LOL All > his textbooks are online although he does have hardback at home as well. > His classes, English, Algebra, Social Studies, etc. meet once or twice a > week in a virtual classroom with a teacher. > > > Do you know what format they use for the algebra book? > > One of the problems I've had with online textbooks is that the technical > books are in PDF form. PDF is not a comfortable on-screen textbook format > because it doesn't flow the text onto the screen. It's not too bad on a > computer with a large monitor, but on an iPad, it's pretty tedious unless > full page fits nicely on the screen without the exponents and subscripts > becoming invisible. > > The epub and mobi ebook creation tools and readers are very deficient. > They supposedly support HTML5, which has MathML as its mathematics display > standard, but the tools for creating MathML are very awkward and I've yet > to see a reader that can handle even mildly complicated equations. > > Apple recommends MathType for doing embedding equations , but it's really > painful to use it when one is used to industrial strength tools like > Mathematica or LaTeX. > > A newer method, based on a Javascript technology called > MathJax<http://www.mathjax.org>, may > turn out to be the best solution. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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