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Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen

  • The teacher who inspired Joni Mitchell

    We all love ‘inspiring teacher’ stories, and this one‘s a dilly. But see below for my awkward question: [Joni] Mitchell was drawn to art, but “growing up just at the time before arts were included as a part of education… at that time I was kind of a freak.” In seventh grade, she had “one…

  • Question types: popularity and quality

    Yacapaca has six question types, ignoring the numerous permutations. Which are the most popular with authors, and which tend to be the best-written? I recently ran an analysis of the 135,513 questions in the database. More than half are straight multiple choice. Come on, folks – get more

  • Quick Assignments in one minute

    John Cudlipp from Broughton High School, Edinburgh, talks you through setting up a quick assignment in less than a minute. If it won’t load here (I’ve had problems with it) try viewing directly on Screencast.com

  • Yacapaca Quiz Results Analysis Tools

    This excellent screencast from Tim Wallach covers the use of the Analyse page and the analysis whiteboard tool from a teacher’s perspective. The original is quite large, so allow a little while for it to load.

  • Yacapaca Gradebook screencast

    If the video doesn’t show or if you find WordPress’s cheap’n’nasty advertising too intrusive, follow this link for the Gradebook screencast instead.