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Quizzes, Homeworks and Revision all draw on the same question bank, so what is the difference and which should you use? The key elements are that: Quizzes and Homeworks are assigned. Revision is not. Homeworks and Revision use CAT and Ebbinghaus schedules. Quizzes do not. The following table fleshes this out a little.
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Yacapaca Homeworks are different from quizzes, even quizzes that you have set to be done at home. Here’s why: Questions are automatically selected from the question bank, according to the current attainment level of each student. You control the amount of time students should spend, not the number of questions. And Yacapaca measures the time…
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The single biggest concern that I hear from teachers taking their first steps into elearning is that “computers are unreliable”. They fear lost work, broken connections, crashed servers – all things that can and do happen. Whilst I take full responsibility for problems that happen on Yacapaca, and work very hard to prevent them, I’ll…
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