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  • Question quality measurement

    The summer is upon those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and I know you are just bursting to get down to some serious quiz authoring. So just in time, we have launched a new tool to help you raise your game – question quality metrics. Here’s the essential FAQ: Where do I see the…

  • Where does the name “Yacapaca” come from?

    I’m glad the mystery is finally cleared up. My thanks to Alastair McCullough for passing on this explanation from his student Dong Min. Click on the image to see it full-size.

  • Is Yacapaca the largest e-learning system in the world?

    I think it is. The Open University’s Moodle is often cited as “one of the largest”, but the OU has 250,000 students, as against our over-2,000,000 registered members. The US military has a system that “serves 1.2 million people” which is impressive, but still smaller than Yacapaca. The only candidate I can find for a…

  • Helping students who struggle with revision

    All my life I have struggled with an attention span that would disgrace a gnat; most especially during my schooldays. Come revision time, I would certainly put in the hours but productive, focussed attention eluded me. So I know what it’s like for many of the kids you are sending off for study leave this…

  • Student and Class Progress Charts

    This four-minute screencast will show you have to use progress charts to get a deeper understanding of students’ progress, and to share it (where appropriate) with the whole class via the whiteboard. Yacapaca Progress Charts, posted with vodpod