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  • 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…

  • CAT: Computer Adaptive Testing

    Computer-adaptive Testing (CAT) has actually been around since the 1970s but it is still little-known and less understood. How CAT works Any given CAT assessment is based on a large bank of questions of varying, but known, difficulty on a given topic. The first question is served at

  • 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…