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Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Yacapaca has a dozen different analytics views, depending on exactly what you count as “analytics”. The table below shows the structure. Time progression Block of time Single assignment Individual student 5. Evidence 6. Parent reports Gradebook averages* Gradebook* Activity log* Detail* Student Set 7. Progress chart 8. Progression with metadata 4. Progress in topics 2. Quiz…
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There are three major, and several minor, results pages in Yacapaca. Ordered by level of detail, the major pages are the Gradebook, Activity Log and Detail. Gradebook This is your overview for a complete student set, for a whole
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Computer-adaptive Testing (CAT) has actually been around since the 1970s but it is still little-known and less understood. How CAT works Any given CAT assessment is based on a large bank of questions of varying, but known, difficulty on a given topic. The first question is served at
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The absolute quickest way to get your students revising on Yacapaca is: Sign up here if you don’t already have an account. Create a new student set via Students tab -> New Student Set Use the “casual” set type so students can create their own logins Set up the subject and syllabus. We currently support 67…
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