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Category: Yacapaca
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Every Yacapaca quiz draws questions in random order from an underlying question bank. It may draw all the questions available, or only a subset. Until now that decision was made by the author, but from today it is made at the point of assigning. Here is where to find the control: By default, 10 questions…
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How many questions should the ideal quiz contain?
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British values: Rule of law? Individual liberty? Mutual respect? Democracy? Yeah, yeah. Every country from Albania to Zambia claims those. Even insofar as they are true, they are certainly not uniquely British. So, what is? What really differentiates us from the Germans, Americans, Russians and Chinese? To my mind, it’s…
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Guest post by Ruth Greener, Teaching, Learning and Assessment Coordinator and Teacher of English, St. Andrews School, Green Valley Campus, Thailand I recently wrote two new Structured Peer Assessments to use in KS3 English. Honeydukes: “Write 100 words to advertise a brand new product that will go on sale in Honeydukes in Hogsmeade.” School Uniform:…
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The Yacapaca whiteboards are designed to be projected to the whole class during or immediately after a quiz. My colleague Sasha Sirota has just completed a refresh of the design, following a brief to reduce the cognitive load. Access either of the two whiteboards from the Results dropdown:
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