Good morning. I am a Digital Integration Specialist in Hagerstown, Md. I have two schools that are Chromebook schools that are in need of a great T184 Emulator. They will need this for state testing and they need students to get familiar with it prior. They were trying Wabbitemu and it is not working. The app is an android app and is not working on the Chromebook. When I showed the math department chairs this site, they loved it, but they don't know what is required for it to run and work. Do you have a manual or getting started guide for schools that may help? Thank you for any guidance. Have a wonderful day.
Assuming you mean the TI-84, you can use our online graphing calculator, jsTIfied which handles many types of calculators. To get it running, you need to upload a ROM file, which is basically a copy of the calculator OS. To get the ROM of a real calculator, you can use a tool like rom8x. If you have any more questions, please let us know! Smile
fichtlis wrote:
Good morning. I am a Digital Integration Specialist in Hagerstown, Md. I have two schools that are Chromebook schools that are in need of a great T184 Emulator. They will need this for state testing and they need students to get familiar with it prior. They were trying Wabbitemu and it is not working. The app is an android app and is not working on the Chromebook. When I showed the math department chairs this site, they loved it, but they don't know what is required for it to run and work. Do you have a manual or getting started guide for schools that may help? Thank you for any guidance. Have a wonderful day.


You can use Linux to get the Beta Linux version of CEmu.
If your school has blocked Beta Linux usage the is no luck to using the TI-84 Plus CE Emulator.
Alvajoy123 wrote:
fichtlis wrote:
Good morning. I am a Digital Integration Specialist in Hagerstown, Md. I have two schools that are Chromebook schools that are in need of a great T184 Emulator. They will need this for state testing and they need students to get familiar with it prior. They were trying Wabbitemu and it is not working. The app is an android app and is not working on the Chromebook. When I showed the math department chairs this site, they loved it, but they don't know what is required for it to run and work. Do you have a manual or getting started guide for schools that may help? Thank you for any guidance. Have a wonderful day.


You can use Linux to get the Beta Linux version of CEmu.
If your school has blocked Beta Linux usage the is no luck to using the TI-84 Plus CE Emulator.


This is for the TI-84+ (according to the post), not the CE. Additionally, it appears that this is a school administrator, so I do not think there will be any significant permissions problems.
fichtlis wrote:
They were trying Wabbitemu and it is not working. The app is an android app and is not working on the Chromebook.

I think the idea of using the Android version of Wabbitemu is a good one- it's likely to be the most user-friendly tool available. Can you expand on how it didn't work (because "it doesn't work" is impossible to troubleshoot)?

I just tried it on my Chromebook (running a dev build, but it shouldn't matter in this case) and after loading a ROM the display was apparently misplaced and scaled wrong- it partially overlapped the keypad and I couldn't interact with anything. Disabling 'Immserive Mode' (sic) in settings (click and drag right from the left side of the window) fixed that, at which point everything seems to work okay:



Going about this approach raises some slightly interesting questions around whether you're legally permitted to use ROMs in this way- in particular if every student needed to get a ROM themselves it seems implausible that they would all succeed in doing so in a legal way. As we've discussed around here in the past, TI would much rather you pay them for a SmartView license, but that's unreasonable for you given they don't support the platform you're running.

If your school has calculators to issue for testing or something and you can provide a matching ROM that seems more admissible because you're essentially using the ROM on the computer as a temporary surrogate. But ultimately I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice- you'll need to make those decisions yourself.
In addition to community-made emulators indeed, you might want to contact TI about their ExamCalc TI emulators solutions, which is JavaScript-based (so, works everywhere where you have access to a web browser, i.e. everywhere indeed), and free for schools/administrations for exams purposes, if I'm understanding their page correctly.
https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/examcalc-software

BTW, this is also what powers their SmartView software internally.
  
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