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Tag: yacapaca
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Yacapaca delivers criterion-referenced assessments. This makes it very useful for doing things like predicting exam grades, because exams are based on tightly-standardised criteria. A Grade C is the same in Barnsley as it is in Basingstoke. At the upper secondary stage (KS4 in England) we have been able to support a wide spectrum of qualifications, and…
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The student interface is based around two lists, the To-Do List and the Archive. In the past, we’ve been a bit inconsistent with the To-Do List and included items that students might want to see, but did not actually have any action attached. That has now been cleaned up and a simple rule implemented. If…
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We now have an astonishing 288,000 questions in the Yacapaca question bank. Many of them were written by truly talented authors and do a great job of formative assessment. Some questions, unfortunately, weren’t. And don’t. I have now recruited the most brutal critics on the planet to weed out the sub-standard questions: your students.
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So you use Yacapaca to assign quizzes to your students and get them auto-marked. Great! Consider yourself a true Power User when you also regularly use these features:
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