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Category: Yacapaca

  • VLE integration, international content, new authoring tools…

    Last weekend we updated Yacapaca with four new features that I hope you will find useful. You will need a (free) Yacapaca login to follow the links Better VLE integration You can now access permalinks from your Assignments List. Content for different countries is now organised separately Use the Country Selector to choose your country,…

  • How to give formative feedback

    I’m talking here particularly about feedback in multiple-choice quizzes. For correct responses, do… extend the student’s

  • Teacher-created content just gets better and better

    If I had to pick one favourite from this month’s new courses, it would be Heidi Watkins’ very visual quiz on Maslow’s Hierarchy. But what characterises all of these new courses is their level of sophistication. Very graphic quizzes, high-quality formative feedback and thorough documentation are all in evidence. Here are my top 9 picks,…

  • Make Cloze questions more useful with Fuzzy Match

    Cloze questions (where the student must type an answer of typically one word) are a really useful part of the question mix that goes into every great quiz. The restriction with auto-marking them has been that it’s an all-or-nothing affair. A slight misspelling, or even a failure to capitalise correctly, loses the student the mark.…

  • Two modest but useful improvements

    We have managed to squeeze one last update in before Christmas. It’s quite modest in feature terms, but significant in that it is the first fruits of a 9-month (and running) programme to rewrite Yacapaca into the Python programming language. Here’s what’s new: Searchable student list. See all your students in a single alphabetical list.…