Category: Yacapaca

  • If you are teaching Computing next year, you might like the recent update to our KS3 Computing syllabus section. I have added a topic list based on the Computing at Schools Working Group specification. I know this is not the final document you will be teaching to, but given the

  • Using Peer Feedback statements in plenaries

    My thanks to Beth Evans, of The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough for this idea. Beth wrote “I did screen shot one question that came up whilst I was testing a quiz I had written and used it as a plenary to the previous* lesson as part of the critera setting for the next task.” *…

  • Today we launched some nice improvements to the Key Concept analysis.

  • I only introduced Judo-style coloured belts on avatars as a stop-gap, but it proved wildly popular with the students – so much so that

  • I believe I can now truthfully claim that Yacapaca is the only true formative assessment service for schools. Here’s how our new peer-written formative assessment process works: 1. After approximately one question in ten, students are presented with the screen below. They are asked to write a feedback statement for other students, in 150 characters or less…