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Category: Yacapaca

  • Update to the keyword revision log

    At the end of each quiz, students see an analysis of their performance against the keywords set for the questions in that quiz. They can save one keyword to their revision log, and this will then be emphasised in their revision later on. The update is that we now only allow one keyword to be…

  • Understanding checkbox questions

    John Davies from Kings School in Gütersloh asked me today about the scoring for Checkbox questions. It’s not obvious because the colour-coding in the Detail markbook is simply red or green, leading one to assume that a question would score a simple 1 or 0. But not so. A Checkbox can return a partial mark.…

  • Mobile quiz design mockups

  • Why doesn’t Yacapaca look like Content Generator?

    Neil Birkin from Frederick Gent school is our #14th-ranked author, and therefore a Bloke To Be Listened To. He wrote to me today and asked Both myself and the kids that I teach love

  • The why and how of timed questions

    Way back in the mists of time, on a hot Friday afternoon, I was doing classroom observation with a generally low-attaining Year 10 group. This was in the days before