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Category: Yacapaca

  • Interview with Gill Chesney-Green

    Gill is a prolific author on Yacapaca, but she’s not what you might expect of an e-learning user: she’s just short of retirement age, and teaching a decidedly non-technical subject: drama. So, why does she use Yacapaca? Gill very kindly agreed to let me interview her yesterday; her answers were quite surprising.

  • 1000 e-learning authors on Yacapaca

    Yesterday we hit another milestone: 1000 authors on Yacapaca. By this measure, we must surely now be the largest educational publisher in the UK and possibly the Western world, which is quite cool to contemplate. I’ve just been going through the stats and found some interesting data: 415 authors have created at least 10 items…

  • Assessment authoring masterclass

    Would you like to attend a masterclass in Yacapaca authoring? This term, I’m planning to get together no more than 20 Yacapaca authors, for a whole day, here in Cambridge. We will get into some of the deep details and hidden features of the system. Here is the programme so far. Because it is only…

  • Best assessment review ever

    We have had user reviews in Yacapaca for a few months now. They are generally positive, and often useful, but they are probably not the most exciting feature. Over the weekend, though, Jenny Heath from Hobart High School in Norfolk left one that really made my heart sing. Here it is: (in context here) These…

  • Managing student sets and logins

    We get a lot of enquiries like this one from Geoff Welch. When setting up pupils how do we set up pupil accounts so that different staff can set tasks for the same pupils? Time for a screencast!