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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:…

  • Creating & editing questions

    This article follows Tutorial 10: How to use the Quiz Builder so if it doesn’t immediately make sense, go back and read that article first. Suppose that you have already started to create a quiz, but you could not find existing suitable questions from the database. You have decided to create one or more brand…

  • Tutorial 10: How to use the Quiz Builder

    Tutorial 10: How to use the Quiz Builder

    If you have Author privileges in Yacapaca, go to More -> My Quizzes. You can ignore search for now, and go straight to Build a New Quiz: This allows you to build a new quiz from scratch, drawing questions from the entire question bank (164,000 questions at time of writing). You can modify 

  • Improve comprehension by re-stating ‘not’ questions into positives

    Here is a question from our database, with one of its distractors (incorrect answers), and a feedback statement written by a student: Question Distractor Feedback statement written by student Which one of the following is not a network topology? Bus Bus is not a network topology. Do you see the problem? ‘Bus’ is indeed a…

  • Cloze vs. multiple choice

    A pros and cons list for quiz authors.