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  • Introducing Question Bombs

    04/11/2013

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    We now have an astonishing 288,000 questions in the Yacapaca question bank. Many of them were written by truly talented authors and do a great job of formative assessment.

    Some questions, unfortunately, weren’t. And don’t.

    I have now recruited the most brutal critics on the planet to weed out the sub-standard questions: your students. (more…)

  • Set homework direct from the Gradebook

    03/11/2013

    Yacapaca Homeworks are different from quizzes, even quizzes that you have set to be done at home. Here’s why:

    • Questions are automatically selected from the question bank, according to the current attainment level of each student.
    • You control the amount of time students should spend, not the number of questions. And Yacapaca measures the time directly; it does not pretend some equivalence of (more…)
  • Author your next quiz in exactly 6 steps

    15/10/2013

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    There is now a much, much simpler way to (more…)

  • Power User Checklist

    09/10/2013

    So you use Yacapaca to assign quizzes to your students and get them auto-marked. Great! Consider yourself a true Power User when you also regularly use these features: (more…)

  • Assignments list update: better signage for activity type

    09/10/2013

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    With 5 different types of activity that you can assign, I’ve been finding it frustrating that (more…)

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