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  • Tutorial 3: The Assignments List

    At the heart of the Yacapaca Teachers’ Module lies the Assignments list. This is your overview of both what your students should be doing, and what they are actually doing. It is the springboard to analytics and actions related to each assignment. Time to make friends…
    Assignments List

    1. Filter and search

    After you have been using Yacapaca for a while, the Assignments list becomes quite (more…)

  • Tutorial 2: Find the right assessment with Faceted Search

     

    When you first meet Yacapaca, you will naturally want to know if it meets an assessment need you have today. With 23,000 quizzes, Yacapaca probably already has the ideal quiz for your next baseline or end-of-unit test – but (more…)

  • Tutorial 1: Fast student setup

    Nomenclature: throughout Yacapaca we use the term “student sets” rather “classes” to encourage the idea that you are no longer limited by the four walls of a classroom. Any student may simultaneously be a member of a whole-year cohort, a class or a smaller group. Group your students in whatever way makes sense at the time.

    ‘Formal’ vs. ‘casual’ student sets

    Do you have a spreadsheet with your students names, classes, admission number, etc?

    • Yes? Excellent! You should import these into “Formal” student sets. Formal sets are preferable when you can set them up, but they are not the subject of this tutorial.
    • No? Not to worry. Create “Casual” student sets and let students sign themselves up to (more…)

  • Yacapaca helping Chinese schools and colleges for free during the Coronavirus epidemic

    You may or may not know that there are hundreds if not thousands of international schools in China that teach wholly or partly in English. Yacapaca has always been popular with them for obvious reasons.

    When China shut down all schools to slow the spread of the virus, the entire nation moved to teaching and learning online. We were proud to be able to serve, but quickly realised that schools that did not already have subscriptions were not in a position to buy one under the present circumstances.

    The simple solution was to offer free usage to Chinese schools until the pandemic is over. We’ve earned substantial praise for this online, which has been great, but to be honest it wasn’t done as a grand gesture. It just seemed like a natural and straightforward way that we could help. This lovely video from FE Week was an especial surprise. The Yacapaca mention starts at 1:02.

    The offer is now extended to schools in the UK that have already shut, and will be extended across the UK if/when the government declares a nationwide shutdown.

  • Yacapaca is FREE during the Coronavirus pandemic (updated)

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    All UK schools are now closed due to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak. Suddenly, face-to-face teaching methods are no longer available.

    China and Hong Kong, where schools have been shut for over a month, have moved all teaching and learning online – mostly using national resources, but in some cases using Yacapaca.

    Yacapaca is the perfect tool maintain teaching and learning with students at home, so I feel it is our duty to step up and help at a time of national emergency. Here is how we are going to do that.

    Any school in the world may now use Yacapaca free. To do so:

    1. Make sure you have (more…)