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Category: Yacapaca
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I thought you’d appreciate a heads-up so you you know what your students are on about when they say “Yacapaca’s not there, sir!” Here’s a little slice of the new design. The intention is to highlight the core benefit of Yacapaca, which is actually very simple: it gets the annoying chore of marking out of…
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Five years ago, everyone was going mobile. Tech blogs were full of advice to adopt a ‘mobile first’ development strategy. In education, the debate raged between the purist all-iPad camp and the libertarian BYOD brigade. So who won? Neither. At Yacapaca, we have a unique perspective. Millions of users, years of history. Rather than rush…
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Short-text questions are appearing in more and more Yacapaca quizzes now (try the Summer Trivia Quiz to get a flavour). The popular Results in Detail view is too compact to show students answers; ‘short text’ is not necessarily all that short. To compensate, we’ve introduced a new view that shows only the short text responses…
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These are real numbers from a secondary school in England, that I got asked to work out this week. They are a fairly typical single-department customer for us; I don’t have permission to share the name of the school.
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Students learn better when they feel in control, even in small ways. To help, we’ve added a new dimension of freedom: quiz skins. Students can change the look and feel of their next quiz. In addition to the original red and yellow skin, we’ve 5 more, examples below. All screenshots below from KS3 Geography revision…
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