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Mobile quiz design mockups 31 Jul 2013 | 03:04 am
This is how I expect Yacapaca to look on a student’s phone by September. Each question is split into three screens; you can quickly scroll between them with your thumb. Eusebiu, our designer, based t...
Why doesn’t Yacapaca look like Content Generator? 15 Jul 2013 | 03:35 pm
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 Yacapaca – howeve...
The why and how of timed questions 15 Jul 2013 | 04:47 am
Way back in the mists of time, on a hot Friday afternoon, I was doing classroom observation with a generally low-attaining Year 10 group. This was in the days before Yacapaca, and the students were us...
Can you baseline Computer Science? 12 Jul 2013 | 03:39 pm
Assessing Computer Science is a very different challenge from assessing ICT, so a different approach is needed. With ICT, there is standard content that we can expect all students to have covered. Com...
Help students retain knowledge over the summer vacation 1 Jul 2013 | 02:02 am
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 t...
Authoring Maths questions 29 Jun 2013 | 02:12 pm
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 ...
What I learned from the Features survey 23 Jun 2013 | 10:47 pm
Looks like people are getting survey fatigue: only 46 responses to this one. Still worthwhile, though. Who replied? This looks fairly representative of the population as a whole. What do they use Y...
Progress with mobile access 17 Jun 2013 | 08:01 pm
This screenshot is me logging into Yacapaca on my phone. We redesigned the login fields so they actually grow larger as the screen grows smaller. You can see that here it almost fills the screen to ma...
How I plan to improve Revision Access 28 May 2013 | 08:43 pm
We launched the Revision Access system later in the term than I would have liked, but now that it’s up and running there is finally some user data to start garnering insights from. It’s certainly work...
Insights from the mobile devices survey 26 May 2013 | 07:24 pm
I’m very pleased to have had as many as 140 responses to the survey. The answers to the multiple choice questions were fairly predictable: The transition to mobile is well underway, with the usual spe...
