Blimey, that was quick! We added 50% more schools in just a week. It’s those quizzes wot did it, but the really cheering thing is the number of teachers who are now starting to experiment with quiz authoring for themselves.

Round about midnight last night we passed 1000 schools landmark on Yacapaca. Approximately 20% of UK secondary schools now have Yacapaca accounts. I’m over the moon.

This year, Mike and Miranda have replaced Christmas cards with Christmas quizzes, running on Yacapaca of course. They come in three flavours: Easy Difficult Fiendish If you want to run them with your students, and are not already a Yacapaca subscriber, you can sign up here for free. You’ll find some suggestions for using them…

I’ve found an absolutely wonderful multimedia company in Hubei (where the Three Gorges Dam is) to create avatars for Yacapaca. They are quick, accurate, and very, very technically competent. Seeking to turn cultural difference to advantage, I asked them to suggest an initial set of characters, and back came the complete cast of The Monkey…

37,000 students 100,000 assessments taken, marked, analysed, returned to their teacher. This really crept up on us – those numbers are not reported in our admin pages so I only found out because Sergej thought on to tell me. I’m gobsmacked, frankly. I hadn’t realised how fast it is growing. (Sorry for the bad quality…