Category: Yacapaca

  • Last week students completed over 30,000 Yacapaca quizzes per day. I think that’s worth celebrating, don’t you? Image credit Bryan Peters

  • This weekend we completed a major update to Yacapaca. Most of it is “under the hood” stuff to help us cope with Yacapaca’s increasing popularity, but there are eight changes to the interface that you may need to know about. Here they are: Within each course, you can no longer select ‘standard’ or ‘extended’ timing.…

  • Thanks Krystie for pointing me to this fantastic 4-minute video from Yr 2 teacher Stacey Hibberson at Mount Beauty Primary School. If only I could explain Yacapaca that succinctly.

  • Please help me with this decision: when I started Yacapaca, I used the term “student set” instead of “class” because it is more general. In particular, I hoped it would encourage teachers to create sub-groups for more targeted teaching. Did it work, or does “student set” just mean “class” to you? Please vote for your…

  • Here’s a question I get asked a lot: How can I create a quiz with more than 100 questions in it? Answer: don’t. 100 questions is your limit, but I recommend you make quizzes much shorter than this. Here is why: A typical quiz cycle is based on 1 minute per question. Very few children…