Today marks a milestone in a long-term project to simplify the authoring experience in Yacapaca. Bits of the new system have been in place for quite some time, but the whole thing is now there, sitting in parallel with (more…)
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Over the last few months we have added a lot of features to the Student Set page. A lot.
Which is great, except that the page has been getting smothered in button. We replaced the top row of buttons a while back with a “Whole set actions” dropdown, but people were (more…)
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It’s coming up to lunchtime on the first day of our peer feedback experiment, and I’m incredibly excited at how well it is going. We have had about 1000 peer-written statements in so far and I wanted to share some of the best of them with you. If the authors of these are your students, you have the right to feel proud. -
Starting from Monday, we are introducing a new level of challenge into our quizzes. We shall be asking students to write formative feedback statements for each other. This is strictly experimental, and I have my finger on a button to switch it off instantly if it is not working.
Here is what your students will see during their next quiz:
Last term, we ran a series of limited tests which convinced me that a significant minority of students can write formative statements that actually (more…)
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