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  • Introducing Mastery Mode

    If you are a fan of Mastery Learning  you are going to love our latest feature. When assigning, you will find the setup dialog has changed slightly. There is a new item “Mode”. When you change this, you see

  • Copyright misconceptions

    Sometimes kids get hold of the wrong end of the stick en masse. A great example is copyright – the right to copy. A quick sampling of students’ peer feedback statements reveals that approx. 50% of statements that mention copyright see it as some kind of a crime. Here’s a quick sampler of the 20+…

  • Are passwords necessary?

    I got a thought-provoking email this morning from Michael Harrington at Batley Business & Enterprise College. In the context of the undeniable inconvenience of logins and passwords, Michael pointed out A boy logging in and doing someone else’s work is making far more progress than sat complaining he cannot login! Equally undeniable. In the past, I have

  • The new ‘flow’ test template helps students to think through each question more carefully

    If your students tend to act before they think, you will love the way we have just upgraded the very core of Yacapaca. The quiz template now has ‘flow state’ management. The problem: Instead of thinking the question through, weaker students, especially, click on the

  • Now you can see the question feedback statements your students are writing

    I am sure you have already noticed the “write a feedback statement” pages that we salt through quizzes now. We ask students to write feedback statements and then vote for the best ones. Until now, you have only been able to see the few statements that I have published here in the blog. Now, you…