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  • How to export your quizzes

    With Yacapaca approaching the end of its service, you may want to preserve the work you have put in over the years by export the assessments you have authored. Although there is no formal ‘export’ feature, there is an easy workaround using ChatGPT, and I have made a very short screencast to show you how:…

  • Better question analysis for authors

    In the Quiz Edit page, we show a number of metrics for each question. Two are new; all deserve

  • Pair Match analysis tutorial

    Pair Match analysis tutorial

    Pair match questions can be used to test for understanding of sequence and relationship in quite subtle ways, but they serve you poorly if you do not know how to analyse the results. Below is an analysis of a pair match (AKA Drag and Drop) question from the Computing Baseline (High level). This is the author’s…

  • How to calibrate quiz percentages to levels or grades

    If you look in your gradebook for any given student set, you will see that all the results are reported in the grade scheme you chose for that set. It’s easy to take that for granted and not think about how it is achieved – at least I hope it is, because we have worked…

  • Beginners’ guide to Checkbox questions

    Checkbox questions (aka “choose-n”) are our second most-popular question type. They are simple and versatile, and you can often replace a whole list of choose-1 questions with a simple choose-n. They also contain a few booby-traps for the