Category: Authoring

  • A teacher emailed me this question a few days ago: I have managed to upload some some pictures as a zip. I can see them in the image library, and as thumbnails in a popup. However, if I try and drag them into my question, all I get is a new window with the image…

  • My hearty congratulations to Ralph Holmes of Langley School, Norfolk, for winning Yacapaca’s Author of the Year award. I announced the award here, but briefy the 1000+ courses on Yacapaca were whittled down to a shortlist of seven best-in-subject exemplars. A panel of judges then selected the winner and runner up. The winner gets a…

  • Over 1,000 teachers have now authored educational resources in Yacapaca. The best of those resources are really quite staggeringly good, as we see from the rave reviews they get from users. It is long past time to honour our best authors, so I am delighted to announce the 2008 Author of the Year Awards. The…

  • Yesterday we hit another milestone: 1000 authors on Yacapaca. By this measure, we must surely now be the largest educational publisher in the UK and possibly the Western world, which is quite cool to contemplate. I’ve just been going through the stats and found some interesting data: 415 authors have created at least 10 items…

  • Would you like to attend a masterclass in Yacapaca authoring? This term, I’m planning to get together no more than 20 Yacapaca authors, for a whole day, here in Cambridge. We will get into some of the deep details and hidden features of the system. Here is the programme so far. Because it is only…