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Category: Yacapaca
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September’s competition was held over three days this week, and was open to all experienced Yacapaca users. There were three prizes (see below) of subscription upgrades. We had a better-than-expected field: 107 signups 66 entries 553 comparisons with comments 159 votes The question I posed was: “Please explain the main problem that Yacapaca solves for…
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Some of my favourite courses, organised by subject. Business & Economics Year 11 Business Communications Revision: Does what it says on the tin, and does it with very high quality. The feedback is truly formative, i.e. it does not just spoon-feed the right answer. Design & Technology Dawlish Community College Resistant Materials: A simple pictorial…
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Just a heads-up that Yacapaca will be down for summer maintenance all next weekend. We have a huge performance upgrade to install. Don’t expect new features: hopefully, all you will ever notice is that Yacapaca continues not to suck.
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We have just finished beta-testing the Prizes! Personal Learning Account (PLA). It went so well that we soft-launched immediately. I will post more about just how it works later (becos I’m proud as punch of what the team has achieved) but basically it throws all the clever software we’ve got at the problem of crafting…
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Being able to see every answer from every student is useful, but sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees – it’s just too much detail. For a long time, I have wanted to offer key-concept analysis of every assignment, but have stumbled on the problem of finding someone to group our 120,000+ questions…
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