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Category: Yacapaca
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I woke up late this morning, as it’s my birthday. Here’s my birthday present from Yacapaca: Yacapaca memberships at 10:00 on 12/12/2008 Teachers 38,399 Students 965,001 Total 1,003,400 This happened because half a dozen very talented computer programmers enabled around a thousand equally talented teachers to create some amazing assessments – quizzes, surveys, ePortfolios, short-text…
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If you are planning to get your students to try the Yacapaca Xmas Goodies, you may well need to create some new student accounts. You will probably be interested, then, in the new “Student pick-list” feature we have launched this morning. Briefly, it is a way of getting your whole class up and running on…
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One day last February, for the first time ever, we had just over 1,000 teachers on Yacapaca in 24 hours. That record stood until yesterday, when at midnight we had had exactly 1,210 teachers visit. All credit for this goes to the authors who have made and shared some really incredible assessment material, and what’s…
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0.005% of Yacapaca users run quizzes on the Sony PSP. That is not enough to justify the additional complexity in the user interface for everyone else, so as of today the PSP quiz template is no longer available. We will migrate all the old PSP quizzes to the Flash 10 templates very soon. This does…
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Out of 35,000 registered teachers on Yacapaca, I only have direct evidence that precisely one has actually read our Terms of Service. He pointed out that our use of the Creative Commons license for all teacher-created content imposes responsibilities, as well as rights, on the author. Quite true. So just in case anyone else is…
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