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  • After the quiz: 5 brilliant tools for filling the gaps in students’ knowledge.

    So your students have taken their quiz, read the feedback, got the score. What now? Most likely, you want students to fill in the gaps in their knowledge that the quiz has revealed. Here are the 5 tools we have built into Yacapaca to help them do just that. 1. Gap analysis The very simplest.…

  • An effective assigning pattern with Teams

    An effective assigning pattern with Teams

    Team working is baked into Yacapaca, and on by default. Yacapaca uses existing student data to produce teams, of whatever size you decide, that are as balanced as possible. This means that even the weakest student has the potential to find him/herself on the winning team. Here is a pattern that leverages the power of…

  • Four ways to use Gap Analysis

    Four ways to use Gap Analysis

    The core of the Yacapaca mission is to take as much of the drudge work out of teaching as possible, to leave you free to actually teach. After you have run a quiz, Yacapaca presents you with automated gap analysis*. Here is how to use it. From the Assignments tab, click on the

  • 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…

  • Help students retain knowledge over the summer vacation

    There is solid research to show that students slip backwards over the summer. You didn’t need telling that, did you? It is a common experience that, come September, you are going to have to rehearse the learning from last year. I’d like to suggest a way that Yacapaca can reduce this problem, if not actually…