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  • Tutorial 12: How to improve the quality of your quiz

    Where a particular quiz appears in the search rankings depends on a combination of relevance to the search and quality. If you improve the quality, your quiz will rise up the search rankings. 1. Here is where to see the quality ranking. Note that although we show popularity, it does not affect ranking. 2. Click…

  • Tutorial 11: Question Types

    Tutorial 11: Question Types

    I spotted a conversation between Dave and Dafydd over on the SchoolHistory.co.uk forum, about question types in quizzes. These guys are two of Yacapaca’s most prolific authors, so if they don’t know, we have clearly not got the message across. So for reference, here’s the complete list. Bookmark it now for future reference!   The…

  • Tutorial 10: How to use the Quiz Builder

    Tutorial 10: How to use the Quiz Builder

    If you have Author privileges in Yacapaca, go to More -> My Quizzes. You can ignore search for now, and go straight to Build a New Quiz: This allows you to build a new quiz from scratch, drawing questions from the entire question bank (164,000 questions at time of writing). You can modify 

  • Tutorial 9: How to preview quiz questions before you assign

    If you have been confirmed by your colleagues as a bona-fide member of teaching staff in your school, you can now see a list of all the questions in a quiz, together with the global response statistics for each question, before you assign it. Why only for confirmed members of staff? It’s just

  • Tutorial 8: Quick Assignments

    Tutorial 8: Quick Assignments

    Suppose you want your students to complete a worksheet, and return their completed sheets to you for marking. Just a simple worksheet. How hard can that be? Well if you do it all by email, the answer is ‘quite hard’. Checking you’ve got them all, downloading (and printing?) each one separately – ugh! Would you…