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  • Why doesn’t Yacapaca look like Content Generator?

    Neil Birkin from Frederick Gent school is our #14th-ranked author, and therefore a Bloke To Be Listened To. He wrote to me today and asked Both myself and the kids that I teach love

  • Authoring Maths questions

    New author Bob Mathews has been experimenting with different ways to create Maths questions. He is using MathType to create some very sophisticated notation, but the problem is how to present this in quizzes. Bob explains I had to save the equation as a GIF, upload the GIF, then drag it over to the quiz.…

  • Progress with mobile access

    This screenshot is me logging into Yacapaca on my phone. Don’t be fooled by the large image here: it’s just an ordinary smartphone (actually an LG Nexus 4); not even an iPhone.   We redesigned the login fields so they actually grow larger as the screen grows smaller. You can see that here it almost…

  • Tricks-of-the-trade that boost student motivation

    I received a long and very thoughtful email yesterday from Calum Munro, who teaches IT in Melbourne, Australia. Calum said Yacapaca is not … a resource to ‘over use’ as the students have a low concentration/interest span and if they use a quiz a lot (even with the shuffling that the program does) they just…