The Exam Mode in Equatio Desktop allows a teacher or admin to turn Equatio toolbar features off for exams.
Exam Mode can be used to turn features off for one student on a particular computer where they will take an exam.
To activate Exam Mode on a student's machine simply download the features.json file and add it to any one of the following locations:
Windows:
C:\ProgramData\Texthelp\Equatio\features.json
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Equatio\features.json
C:\Users\USERNAME\Equatio\features.json
Mac:
Users/Shared/Equatio/features.json
Once this file has been added to one of the locations mentioned above and you open Equatio your toolbar should look like this:
If you want to enable/disable any features simply right click on the features.json file and open the file in Notepad.
You will see the list below. To enable/disable a feature, simply change the value to true/false respectively.
{
"prediction": true,
"equation": true,
"latex": true,
"graph": true,
"handwriting": true,
"speech": true,
"companion": true,
"equatio-mathspace": true,
"screenshot_reader": true,
"equatio-academy": true,
"stem-tools": true,
"action-buttons": true
}
N.B. "action-buttons" refers to the 'Edit Math', 'Insert Math' and 'Copy Math' buttons.
The Options menus will also be reduced:
It will also remove the 'More' option from the Screenshot Reader when it has been used: