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 Continue reading
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 student set via the Students menu. Any set that has data will appear in this dropdown; un-assessed sets don’t appear here.
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Time progression
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Individual student
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5. Evidence
6. Parent reports
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Gradebook averages*
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Gradebook* Activity log* Detail* |
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Student Set
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7. Progress chart
8. Progression with metadata
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4. Progress in topics
2. Quiz analysis
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1. Gap Analysis
2. Quiz analysis
3. Analysis whiteboard
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9. Pivot Chart (beta) does not quite fit in this table.
*strictly speaking these are Continue reading
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, here is the solution. On the Activity Log page you will now find a direct link to the Detail view…
…and on the Detail view you will now find a direct link to the Activity Log view.
“Results view” has been renamed to “Activity Log” since this screenshot was taken.
When students misspell a common word, what is driving the error? I analysed 35,000 Peer Feedback entries in which the student had intended to write “wrong” and found 1614 instances of misspellings – about 5% of the total.
Of the misspellings,
My own spelling changed from atrocious to moderately good overnight, when a psychologist colleague taught me the visual spelling strategy. It looks like a good proportion of these students could still benefit from the same thing. The rest just need to learn touch typing.
