EquatIO

Note: EquatIO is free for teachers. You can sign up here.

EquatIO is a multi-platform program that enables access for teachers and students across the world to surprisingly advanced capabilities. Its purpose is to facilitate online education using common shared spaces and to develop demonstrative, active-learning skills among students. The software is available for both Windows and macOS, and it even has a Chrome extension that supports all the desktop app’s features.

For the teachers who use it, EquatIO will make it possible to transcend the traditionally-imposed authoritative persona and exchange it for a collaborative, engaging, and exciting way of knowledge transmitting. Moreover, reaching students with disabilities (or visual impairments) will become increasingly facile for tutors, as EquatIO will provide excellent visually-appealing and customizable content.

It will help make difficult tasks feel effortless. Creating graphs, projects, and working with formulas, or chemistry symbols has never been easier. Among the tool’s capabilities, worth mentioning are: the LaTeX editor for inserting math expressions directly into digital documents, an equation editor with manual insertions and a super-effective prediction engine that allows users to find what they are looking for (formulas, math expressions, etc.).

Powerful additions are the possibility to use the screenshot reader that scans pictures, images (basically, any kind of visual representations) of formulas and transposes them into readable, fully actionable, and editable data. The speech and handwriting recognition are two separate features that work extremely smoothly. Last but not least — a graphical builder for graphs, grid building elements, and range-axis definitions.

It makes their work easier, more effective, and allows for a greater impactful footprint in students’ growth; plus, it positively reconfigures students' learning curve. With the help of a keyboard, speech, or handwriting recognition, all students — no matter their current abilities, intellectual level, or deficiencies — will have an equal chance with those who are more fortunate.

Accessing a learning ecosystem that consists of commonly shared working space that allows for digital assignments and advanced resolution sharing will be a game-changer for all those who learn online. Not only is the tool available in your most frequently used platforms and programs (Google Docs, Forms and Sheets, Microsoft Word, PDFs), the app will also sustain synergic design and assignment building between teachers and those who administrate the learning spaces.

To summarize, the app is an incredible initiative with a lot of advanced tools. Not only do these work incredibly well, but the touch and feel of EquatIO is super good and refined. Although it mainly addresses teachers and students’ communication, the app is so resourceful and flexible, it could benefit single learners and any other type of user who is interested in advancing their mathematical knowledge, or needs the many benefits EquatIO offers (screenshot reader, handwriting input recognition, speech recognition).