This morning we updated Question Creatr for cloze (gap-fill) questions.
In addition to a general tidy-up, you will find the required response is now restricted to 10 characters. That may sound a little mean, but (more…)
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Kane Doran earns his yellow badge @Yacapaca pic.twitter.com/EtXdcO2n5s
— Lodge Park Academy (@lodgeparkacad) November 5, 2014
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From today, your students will be able to earn new lapel badges on Yacapaca – if they work hard enough. We had a fantastic response to the original badge system. I was amazed and delighted to hear about schools building entire assemblies around the presentation of Yacapaca badges, so of course that motivated me to extend the system.
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Sam Hucker from Winterbourne International Academy asked me this question this morning:
I have set up a partial exam for my BTEC Engineering students. Is there a way that I can set up further questions where they have to type paragraphs or free sentences in larger
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Pingdom is a service that tests your homepage by accessing it from a remote server, and timing how long it takes each individual component to load. I tested Yacapaca from their Amsterdam server at peak time (11:33) this morning, and got the encouraging result that we are “faster than 93% of all tested websites”.
If you want to see how it is performing right now, follow this link. I’m not sure how long Pingdom keep the link valid, though. For the most relevant results, re-set the server location from the default Austin, Texas to Amsterdam.
Pingdom only tests the homepage. To see current quiz load times, check our Twitter Feed.
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