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Per-page guide to the teachers' module (pending update)

• Resources
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  • Course page (accessible via the assigning sequence)

• Assignments
  • List Assignments

• Students
  • My Student Sets
  • My Students

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  • Set a Quick Assignment
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Guide to the Student Module

Login screen (http://yacapaca.com/student)

• To-do list
  • To-do list

• Tabs in the to-do list
  • 'Me' page
  • access key (students)
  • merge logins (student)
  • see a list of your teachers (student)
  • change your Yacapaca login ID and password (student)
  • choose an avatar (student)

How-to videos

• 5-minute (max) screencasts to guide you through key processes
  • Uploading a new student set: Follow this procedure and it will take no more than 90 seconds to upload your class.
  • Student Set Management: How many teachers can teach many students via many sets, all with just one login each.
  • The Whiteboard: A great tool for showing the class an analysis of their results in realtime.
  • Results filters: Now your students have finished a set of quizzes, how can you see exactly the marking data you need?
  • Progress Charts: See, and share, how each student, or the whole class, are progressing through interactive graphs.
  • Question Creatr: A short tour of our new question-creation tool. Includes images, sounds and tagging, but not Glyphs. They were added after this video was made.
  • The Quiz Statistics page: To the a serious quiz author, this is the single most useful page in Yacapaca. Yet, hardly anyone knows about it.
  • Tagging across multiple pages: Advanced techniques for compiling quizzes from very large (100+) question banks.
  • Adding videos to quizzes: Create complete learning resources by embedding videos, slideshows and more into any type of assessment.
  • Fuzzy-match cloze questions: Write Cloze (aka "Type your answer") questions that are tolerant of students' poor spelling.
  • Teams increase student motivation: One click to to harness the power of teams in your classroom.
  • [Quick Assignments]: An end to the chaos of emailed assignment with this organisational feature.

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