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  • 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…

  • Better question analysis for authors

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

  • How to author a course

    In Yacapaca, a course is basically a way to collate quizzes into a logical structure. It enables you to provide teachers’ notes and downloadable files such as lesson plans or worksheets. A course also has its own markbook, enabling teachers to see results grouped separately from other assignments should they wish to. What it’s not: a Yacapaca…

  • Beginners’ guide to multiple-choice questions

    These are the absolute basic basics of how a “choose-one” type multiple choice question works, for new authors. Here is a typical question: The components are: the STEM (question); typically 4 OPTIONS (aka FOILS), comprising the KEY (the right answer) and 3 DISTRACTORS (the wrong answers). The stem (question). Make sure you