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Category: Yacapaca
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This excellent screencast from Tim Wallach covers the use of the Analyse page and the analysis whiteboard tool from a teacher’s perspective. The original is quite large, so allow a little while for it to load.
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If the video doesn’t show or if you find WordPress’s cheap’n’nasty advertising too intrusive, follow this link for the Gradebook screencast instead.
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This is a guest post by Mr Chris Coleman, AST for E-Learning, Conyers School & Sixth Form College As a teacher of ICT, I am always striving to provide opportunities for students to access learning where feedback is not only summative but also personalised and formative. Over the last five years, Yacapaca has proven to…
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New Zealand National Curriculum levels, and NCEA grades, are now supported by Yacapaca. If you teach in New Zealand, you can now: view assignment marks in NZ-relevant grades set targets in NZ grades share progress charts calibrated in NZ grades with students and parents. Here’s how. To access NZ grading, you need to switch it…
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Our algorithm for converting quiz percentages into National Curriculum levels was originally based on a cross-grading exercise with some 2,400 students. We have just finished re-calibrating the algorithm with almost 100 times that number – 220,962 to be exact. We collected the data by asking every teacher the approximate average level of their class. As…
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