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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
We have had user reviews in Yacapaca for a few months now. They are generally positive, and often useful, but they are probably not the most exciting feature. Over the weekend, though, Jenny Heath from Hobart High School in Norfolk left one that really made my heart sing. Here it is: (in context here) These…
If you want to write really good quizzes, don’t expect to get them right first time. Here is a tool for monitoring results aggregated across all users. It helps you to spot questions that are not working for one reason or another, and to work out how to improve them.
Sandra Lothian from the New South Wales YMCA asked a question (login req) in the Yacapaca forum yesterday: Once you have created a quiz, short-text assessment or eportfolio. Where do you go to preview what it will look like? A great chance to try out Jing, a ‘casual screencasting’ tool I’ve just started using.…
Until recently, language materials have been noticeable on Yacapaca only by their absense. I have had correspondence recently with a few teachers who are starting to write materials – particularly quizzes and short-text tests. I thought it would interesting to look at just how the subject is developing. Here are the authoring groups currently named…
This evening we installed a major update to Yacapaca. The new features turn it into a general-purpose assessment platform that does everything paper-based assessment did, only better. We have been working towards this for two long years, and you cannot imagine how happy I am to finally see it come to fruition. You will find…
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