How the results pages fit together

There are three major, and several minor, results pages in Yacapaca. Ordered by level of detail, the major pages are the Gradebook, Activity Log and Detail.

Gradebook

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This is your overview for a complete student set, for a whole Continue reading →

Instant Assign Again comes to Quick Assignments

Quick Assignments are a way to quickly assign, collect and grade written work. Unlike quizzes they won’t do the marking for you, but they will save you a lot of time and temper.

Now we have made them even quicker, by copying the Assign Again feature from quiz assignments.

Once you have created a Quick Assignment for one student sets, it is the work of seconds to assign it to more sets. In the assignments list:

Actions ->Assign again

Select the new student set and Continue reading →

Improvement to the Gradebook

Last month I sent a simple survey to our top power users. I wanted to know what the most useful way would be to date assignments in the gradebook. Here is what they said:

gradebook 2

No unanimity, but a clear majority. So we did it.

Tracking pupil progress with the Yacapaca Gradebook at Chauncy School

I had this lovely note today from Owen Hawkridge at the Chauncy School in Ware.

You might be interested to know that we’ve* abandoned our old spreadsheet system for tracking pupil progress at KS3 and instead are using the Yacapaca gradebook. We’ll be starting with Continue reading →

Upgraded Gradebook: two dimensions of enhanced information

Today we launched a redesigned Gradebook that gives you a lot more information at a glance.

Columns are colour-coded for assignment type. In the example above, you can Continue reading →