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  • How to export your quizzes

    With Yacapaca approaching the end of its service, you may want to preserve the work you have put in over the years by export the assessments you have authored. Although there is no formal ‘export’ feature, there is an easy workaround using ChatGPT, and I have made a very short screencast to show you how:…

  • Tutorial 12: How to improve the quality of your quiz

    Where a particular quiz appears in the search rankings depends on a combination of relevance to the search and quality. If you improve the quality, your quiz will rise up the search rankings. 1. Here is where to see the quality ranking. Note that although we show popularity, it does not affect ranking. 2. Click…

  • Tutorial 9: How to preview quiz questions before you assign

    If you have been confirmed by your colleagues as a bona-fide member of teaching staff in your school, you can now see a list of all the questions in a quiz, together with the global response statistics for each question, before you assign it. Why only for confirmed members of staff? It’s just

  • New design for the Whiteboards

    New design for the Whiteboards

    The Yacapaca whiteboards are designed to be projected to the whole class during or immediately after a quiz. My colleague Sasha Sirota has just completed a refresh of the design, following a brief to reduce the cognitive load. Access either of the two whiteboards from the Results dropdown:

  • Timed questions help students get in ‘flow’

    It all started one warm Friday afternoon about 12 years ago. I was observing a Y10 class in a fairly typical mainstream secondary school. They were taking a test using Paperless School, a now-defunct system that I had designed. One pair of boys particularly caught my attention. They were lolling back in their chairs, chatting about snooker and doing their…