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  • Managing students

    How to add, remove and move students to and from your student sets.

  • Yacapaca Gradebook screencast

    If the video doesn’t show or if you find WordPress’s cheap’n’nasty advertising too intrusive, follow this link for the Gradebook screencast instead.

  • Yacapaca in an Australian primary school

    Thanks Krystie for pointing me to this fantastic 4-minute video from Yr 2 teacher Stacey Hibberson at Mount Beauty Primary School. If only I could explain Yacapaca that succinctly.

  • Make Cloze questions more useful with Fuzzy Match

    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.…

  • Super-quick signup option for students

    If you are planning to get your students to try the Yacapaca Xmas Goodies, you may well need to create some new student accounts. You will probably be interested, then, in the new “Student pick-list” feature we have launched this morning. Briefly, it is a way of getting your whole class up and running on…