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Tag: analysis
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How much difference does two years of education really make? Not to specific taught subjects, but to a child’s overall preparedness for the world? To find out, I analysed the global results from our 2020 Topical Christmas Quiz. I looked at the average result per year group for each of the Gap Analysis categories. Here’s…
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If you have been confirmed by your colleagues as a bona-fide member of teaching staff in your school, you can now see a list of all the questions in a quiz, together with the global response statistics for each question, before you assign it. Why only for confirmed members of staff? It’s just
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You already know what a gradebook/markbook is. Every teacher grew up with them. The difference with the Yacapaca Gradebook is how much of the work it does for you. In this tutorial I am going to take you through 6 massive time-savers that you quite possibly did not know about. Access the Gradebook for any…
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Yacapaca has a dozen different analytics views, depending on exactly what you count as “analytics”. The table below shows the structure. Time progression Block of time Single assignment Individual student 5. Evidence 6. Parent reports Gradebook averages* Gradebook* Activity log* Detail* Student Set 7. Progress chart 8. Progression with metadata 4. Progress in topics 2. Quiz…
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Whilst running this term’s authoring CPD, I started getting really bugged that to get from the Activity Log view to the Detail view, I had to go via the Assignments page and Actions dropdown. We’ve never had a single complaint about this, so maybe it’s just me, but nevertheless, time to do something about it. So,…
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