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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
If I had to pick one favourite from this month’s new courses, it would be Heidi Watkins’ very visual quiz on Maslow’s Hierarchy. But what characterises all of these new courses is their level of sophistication. Very graphic quizzes, high-quality formative feedback and thorough documentation are all in evidence. Here are my top 9 picks,…
Cloze questions (where the student must type an answer of typically one word) are a really useful part of the question mix that goes into every great quiz. The restriction with auto-marking them has been that it’s an all-or-nothing affair. A slight misspelling, or even a failure to capitalise correctly, loses the student the mark.…
I received a long and very thoughtful email yesterday from Calum Munro, who teaches IT in Melbourne, Australia. Calum said Yacapaca is not … a resource to ‘over use’ as the students have a low concentration/interest span and if they use a quiz a lot (even with the shuffling that the program does) they just…
Daniel Burrows wrote in with an interesting question yesterday: I have just setup my first test and course in yacapaca.com, but I have a problem with how little room I am allowed in feedback (see attached). Is there anyway I can allow my students to scroll, or make the default font bigger? The Yacapaca quiz…
Not my best-ever screencast, this one, but you may find it useful nonetheless. A Yacapaca member was strugging to set for her kids a quiz that she had just authored. When I looked at it, I realised that the process is not nearly as intuitive as I had imagined. So…
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