Tag: authoring

  • You can now include any quiz in any course – even if you did not author the quiz yourself. This enables you to compile courses for any purpose – for example to support your new Computing syllabus – on the fly. The corollary is also true: you are no longer required to

  • There is now a much, much simpler way to

  • New author Bob Mathews has been experimenting with different ways to create Maths questions. He is using MathType to create some very sophisticated notation, but the problem is how to present this in quizzes. Bob explains I had to save the equation as a GIF, upload the GIF, then drag it over to the quiz.…

  • We have always put great stress on the formative value of good feedback in Yacapaca quizzes. There is something about getting instant results that really engages the brain, and that creates a fantastic, but fleeting, opportunity to hit the student with an insight or challenge. Sometimes this works, but sometimes it does not. I have…