How the Analytics pages fit together

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 analysis	1. Gap Analysis 2. Quiz analysis 3. Analysis whiteboard

9. Pivot Chart (beta) does not quite fit in this table.

*strictly speaking these are Continue reading →

Now toggle quickly between the Activity Log and Detail views

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.

Analysing spelling errors

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.

wrong again

Of the misspellings,

62% entered “rong”, a phonetic error
27% entered “worng”, a typographical error.

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.

Charting progression

Log into your Yacapaca teacher account and go to

More tab -> Progression Charts

For each of your student sets, you will see something like this:

You can select some or all sets to compare with a simple search field.

But you can do a lot more than this. You can also Continue reading →

How to preview quiz questions before you assign

Question stats

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 →