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  • Four ways to use Gap Analysis

    Four ways to use Gap Analysis

    The core of the Yacapaca mission is to take as much of the drudge work out of teaching as possible, to leave you free to actually teach. After you have run a quiz, Yacapaca presents you with automated gap analysis*. Here is how to use it. From the Assignments tab, click on the

  • Introducing Sequence questions

    Being able to work out a sequence is a classic demonstration of understanding and this makes it a popular assessment option. The new Sequence question type in Yacapaca supports up to 5 items to be sequenced, with text, images or both. It uses a simple and intuitive drag-and-drop interface. This sample quiz will give you…

  • Timed questions help students get in ‘flow’

    It all started one warm Friday afternoon about 12 years ago. I was observing a Y10 class in a fairly typical mainstream secondary school. They were taking a test using Paperless School, a now-defunct system that I had designed. One pair of boys particularly caught my attention. They were lolling back in their chairs, chatting about snooker and doing their…

  • A very short primer on gamification

    Yacapaca is a gamified formative assessment system. I want to discuss briefly what that means, and how we interpret it in software. Gamification is the art of making things you want to do anyway more fun, and more motivating. To understand why this is so powerful, I recommend this 12-minute TED talk by Seth Priebatsch because it…

  • How the Analytics pages fit together

    How the Analytics pages fit together

    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…