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  • How quiz timing works

    How quiz timing works

    In Yacapaca, students are given a set amount of time to answer each question. The time remaining is shown on the timer bar.  The purpose of the timer is to help students stay focused on the task, and it works really well. The way it works is more subtle than you may have realised. Question…

  • The Game of Education

    Controversial blogger Donald Clark has boldly announced that “Gamification does NOT work” in education. What he misses is that education has been gamified for the last 1400 years. Here is how that game works, and how we can…

  • A very short primer on gamification

    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…

  • The Badge Log

    If your students have enjoyed earning Yacapaca badges, you may need to track exactly who has earned what. There is now a badge log under the More tab. Nothing fancy, but it should meet the need. See yours here. Badges have been a runaway success this year, with overwhelmingly positive feedback (such as this story…

  • Congratulations to Kane Doran at Lodge Park Academy

    Kane Doran earns his yellow badge @Yacapaca pic.twitter.com/EtXdcO2n5s — Lodge Park Academy (@lodgeparkacad) November 5, 2014 This is what we like to see.