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Category: Yacapaca

  • Introducing Question Bombs

    We now have an astonishing 288,000 questions in the Yacapaca question bank. Many of them were written by truly talented authors and do a great job of formative assessment. Some questions, unfortunately, weren’t. And don’t. I have now recruited the most brutal critics on the planet to weed out the sub-standard questions: your students.

  • Set homework direct from the Gradebook

    Yacapaca Homeworks are different from quizzes, even quizzes that you have set to be done at home. Here’s why: Questions are automatically selected from the question bank, according to the current attainment level of each student. You control the amount of time students should spend, not the number of questions. And Yacapaca measures the time…

  • Author your next quiz in exactly 6 steps

    There is now a much, much simpler way to

  • Power User Checklist

    So you use Yacapaca to assign quizzes to your students and get them auto-marked. Great! Consider yourself a true Power User when you also regularly use these features:

  • Assignments list update: better signage for activity type

    With 5 different types of activity that you can assign, I’ve been finding it frustrating that