Yacapaca webinars run weekly on Thursdays at 4:00-4:30pm, UK time. They are designed to be of value to both SLTs making the strategic decision to adopt a formative assessment platform, and existing users who seek to extract more teaching & learning from the tool they already know and love. Because these events attract a mix of new and experienced users, the sessions are interactive, engaging and high-value.
Here is the schedule for the second half of the Continue reading
Yacapaca is a gamified formative assessment system. I want to discuss briefly what that means, and how we interpret it in software.
Gamification is the art of making things you want to do anyway more fun, and more motivating. To understand why this is so powerful, I recommend this 12-minute TED talk by Seth Priebatsch because it is a lot more fun and motivating than the Continue reading
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Time progression
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Individual student
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5. Evidence
6. Parent reports
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Gradebook averages*
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Gradebook* Activity log* Detail* |
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Student Set
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7. Progress chart
8. Progression with metadata
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4. Progress in topics
2. Quiz analysis
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1. Gap Analysis
2. Quiz analysis
3. Analysis whiteboard
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9. Pivot Chart (beta) does not quite fit in this table.
*strictly speaking these are Continue reading
How to add, remove and move students to and from your student sets.
A pros and cons list for quiz authors. Continue reading
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