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Category: Yacapaca
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Imagine having a detailed profile of the progression of every student, in every subject, not just by grade or even by topic, but right down to the level of concepts known, understood and evaluated.
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Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 10 comes with Edge, a new browser to replace the antediluvian Internet Explorer. Hooray! Technical folk the world over loathe MSIE with a deep and abiding passion, and we are delighted to see it slip into history. What’s more, Edge has had largely good reviews. It’s fast, stable and generally standards-compatible. Will…
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PiXL have been promoting an alternative to National Curriculum levels for while, and their ideas have been gaining some traction. We have an ongoing survey (do add your voice!) of our members’ intentions for KS3 reporting, and as you can see it’s neck and neck between continuing with NC Levels and switching to PiXL. So…
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When setting up Yacapaca for the new year, you should have two aims: Minimise your own workload, of course Maintain continuity of student data. Why? …because Yacapaca’s famed ability to individualise the learning experience depends on its existing knowledge of the individual …because the analytics will show useful trends provided their is past data to…
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This is a guest post from Matt Baker, who teaches Physics at Bangkok Patana School, one of the leading British International Schools in Thailand, and a Yacapaca Pathfinder school. Matt has been using Yacapaca for several years and has it well-embedded into his Physics curriculum (see here for Matt’s iGCSE course). I asked Matt how he…
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