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Category: Yacapaca
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Quick Assignments are a way to quickly assign, collect and grade written work. Unlike quizzes they won’t do the marking for you, but they will save you a lot of time and temper. Now we have made them even quicker, by copying the Assign Again feature from quiz assignments. Once you have created a Quick Assignment…
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When students misspell a common word, what is driving the error? I analysed 35,000 Peer Feedback entries in which the student had intended to write “wrong” and found 1614 instances of misspellings – about 5% of the total. Of the misspellings, 62% entered “rong”, a phonetic error 27% entered “worng”, a typographical error. My…
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If you want to deliver a traditional summative test, use Exam Mode. Exam Mode excludes multiple attempts right or wrong notification after each question formative feedback after each question but is otherwise
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Yacapaca has a very sophisticated built-in revision management system for all our most popular subjects, and it is very easy to set up. Here’s how. 1. Enable revision topics Students tab > Student sets > Actions > Topics for Revision 2. Set the topics you have
