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Category: Yacapaca
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If your students have enjoyed earning Yacapaca badges, you may need to track exactly who has earned what. There is now a badge log under the More tab. Nothing fancy, but it should meet the need. See yours here. Badges have been a runaway success this year, with overwhelmingly positive feedback (such as this story…
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One of the great things about running a really big database like Yacapaca is that you get an absolute ton of data to analyse, and you can sometimes give definitive answers to questions other people can only speculate about. The ‘disapplication’ of NC Levels is a case in point. Michael Gove told teachers to abandon NC…
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Next time you create a student set, you will find that you can optionally upload more data about each student. The benefits are Identity data. The admission number enables you to ensure that each student only has one
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My thanks to new member Yasmin Sheikh of Whitfield School in Barnet for asking why we show each question for 10 seconds before displaying the options. I realised that although we have worked like stink build opportunities for differentiation into every point of the Yacapaca process, I have never really explained them. Here, then is chapter and verse. Implicit…
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