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news for teachers
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Sorry, a lashup on the ePortfolio module. We left the all-important Authoring features hidden on some accounts when we launched. Now fixed for all Teacher accounts.
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After months of secrecy we finally announced today. The Yacapaca ePortfolio is now into public pilot. It’s a good thing I was working from home today because I was leaping around like a mad thing after I sent the announcement email to the Yacapaca mailing list. As much as anything, it’s a relief to have…
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I’m very happy today because for once I have an easy-to-explain new feature to introduce: self-set targets. The mechanism is very simple. Students set themselves a percentage target at the beginning of each test. At the end, the target is re-shown together with the result. The reward (in the example below, the avatar’s victory dance)…
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A lost-confirmation complaint prompted me to research how good different ISPs are at delivering email. I looked at the number of failed signups to Yacapaca, and compared them against successful signups. Here are the results for the big ISPs: AOL.com 33% Yahoo.co.uk 24% Hotmail.com 23% Tiscali.co.uk 20% Yahoo.com 17% BTinternet.com 17% Hotmail.co.uk 10% So, what’s…
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Just after half term I had great pleasure of visiting three schools in the South West. Ostensibly, I was escorting my colleague Victoria Yegorenkova during her induction training, but it was a great excuse to get in some classroom observation and meet several teachers I knew previously only by reputation. First up was Horndean TC.…
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