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Category: Yacapaca
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It’s coming up to lunchtime on the first day of our peer feedback experiment, and I’m incredibly excited at how well it is going. We have had about 1000 peer-written statements in so far and I wanted to share some of the best of them with you. If the authors of these are your students,…
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Starting from Monday, we are introducing a new level of challenge into our quizzes. We shall be asking students to write formative feedback statements for each other. This is strictly experimental, and I have my finger on a button to switch it off instantly if it is not working. Here is what your students will…
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Quizzes, Homeworks and Revision all draw on the same question bank, so what is the difference and which should you use? The key elements are that: Quizzes and Homeworks are assigned. Revision is not. Homeworks and Revision use CAT and Ebbinghaus schedules. Quizzes do not. The following table fleshes this out a little.
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In your Assignments List, you will now notice that the progress bars for Quick Assignments show two colours instead of one. Here’s what they mean: Responded: What proportion of the students have submitted a response, whether this is a text response or an uploaded file. Graded: The proportion to which you have assigned a grade. This neatly…
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Yacapaca revision follows a system that is well proven to boost results. Revision is now enabled by default for most* students on Yacapaca. All they need to do is log in and click “Revise (syllabus name)” and off they go. What the student will now see is
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