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Category: Yacapaca
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The author of some excellent Yacapaca assessments (who has asked me not to name him, for the moment) recently asked to pass my eye over a very complete set of offline teaching materials he had also created. He said: …over the last few years I have sweated blood on producing a whole set of these…
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How do you get the same flexibility that a red biro gives you, when marking text-based assessments online? That red pen really is a fantastic teaching tool, but it falls down when you want the student also to be able to edit the work afterwards. Fortunately, there is a way to have the best of…
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Dawn Cox from Orwell High School has been a user and good friend of Yacapaca for some time now. She’s one of those people who pushes us to raise our game by demanding (albeit politely) new features. Today, Dawn has been pushing me for a way to organise students into all their classes without duplicating…
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Google launched their own web browser, Chrome yesterday. It is likely to prove popular because it is faster and safer than Internet Explorer. Every website owner meets the launch of a new browser with a mixture of excitement and dread. They each have their foibles (whilst staunchly maintaining that they are ‘standards compliant’ and everyone…
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As you can see, many authors have been busy over the summer. I have taken a risk this time, and allowed myself to be a little critical where I feel the authors could have stretched themselves further. There is lots of good material in Yacapaca, but only a small amount that is truly great. I…
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