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Category: Yacapaca

  • Safer than your bank

    How secure is your learning platform? The TLS Report measures the quality of encryption used by different web services. I tested Yacapaca against online banking from the UK’s major high street banks. Only Lloyds TSB matched our rating. Here are links to the reports. Yacapaca grade B Lloyds TSB grade B HSBC grade C Barclays…

  • Global Yacapaca usage snapshot

    We had a lovely email today from a teacher in Australia, who asked: I am a regional ICT Trainer in Australia, and I am absolutley amazed by your Yacapaca site! The functionality is like nothing I’ve seen anywhere else!! I signed up to try it out and was blown away. I would love to recommend…

  • 31 New courses on Yacapaca during May

    That’s the most ever in one month. I am not going to be too hasty to claim a trend, though. Several of these are actually quite old, but have only just hit ‘maturity’ i.e. the requisite level of real usage to become eligible for publication. I’m not sure if this is artificially inflating the figures…

  • Author of the Year Nominations

    Over 1,000 teachers have now authored educational resources in Yacapaca. The best of those resources are really quite staggeringly good, as we see from the rave reviews they get from users. It is long past time to honour our best authors, so I am delighted to announce the 2008 Author of the Year Awards. The…

  • 17 new courses on Yacapaca during April

    It looks like a few authors were busy over the Easter holiday, because we have another good haul of new courses this month. I am particularly pleased to see Sociology making an appearance, and I’ve now added a Sociology list to the New Assignments page. If you use any of these resources with one of…