It is now 10x easier to have your courses report results as either GCSE grades, or National Curriculum levels, with more grading schemes to follow. It took me a while to realise that the runaway popularity of our ICT Baseline scheme, (with over 1,000,000 quizzes served per year) is because it returns reliable NC levels.…

Three different people today asked me variations on “but is my data safe in Yacapaca?” Lazy git that I am, I’ll group some of my previous writings on the subject here to save time in future: An overview of the issues. Specifics on security and encryption (a little ironic given what’s happened since to the…

We have had a Facebook fan page for some time, courtesy of Neny Isharyanti, who set it up. Recently I’ve found it a really good place to post quick updates that don’t necessarily merit a full blog post. And, of course, it’s great to see other users’ comments. FB.init(“2dd697ea96d410b8fc25181f7e74dca8”); Yacapaca on Facebook

I just came across this SWOT analysis of Yacapaca on the Teacherweb wiki, though it has been around since Feb of this year. Needless to say I agree with the “Strengths” and think that the “Weaknesses” generally miss the point. But make up your own mind. Better yet, as it’s a wiki, extend and improve…

I wish there were more teachers like @ICTtower willing to give back to the Yacapaca community, in this case with great training resource. Incidentally, perhaps because I am not a PC user myself, I really did not realise that that people might not know how to print from one. I would never have dared include…