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Category: New feature
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Starting from Monday, we are introducing a new level of challenge into our quizzes. We shall be asking students to write formative feedback statements for each other. This is strictly experimental, and I have my finger on a button to switch it off instantly if it is not working. Here is what your students will…
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In your Assignments List, you will now notice that the progress bars for Quick Assignments show two colours instead of one. Here’s what they mean: Responded: What proportion of the students have submitted a response, whether this is a text response or an uploaded file. Graded: The proportion to which you have assigned a grade. This neatly…
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Yacapaca revision follows a system that is well proven to boost results. Revision is now enabled by default for most* students on Yacapaca. All they need to do is log in and click “Revise (syllabus name)” and off they go. What the student will now see is
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Flightlines are a fantastic tool to communicate progress (or the lack of it) to students and their parents. A Flightline is a chart that shows two types of information very simply: … monthly average grades achieved … the grades that should be achieved each month if the end-of-year target is to be met …and now…
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We launched the Revision Access system later in the term than I would have liked, but now that it’s up and running there is finally some user data to start garnering insights from. It’s certainly working; the log shows students revising through the half term, some of them with considerable diligence. However, I see some problems that…
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