yacapaca assessment. authoring guide for students introduction yacapaca aims guide for teachers
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Yacapaca
Assessment
Authoring
Guide for Students
Introduction
YacapacaAims
Guide for Teachers
Aims
• Investigate the package ‘yacapaca’ and its effect on teaching and learning
• Introduce the various aspects of yacapaca
• Illustrate the students’ aspects
• Demonstrate the teachers’ facilities
• See an ePortfolio in action
Learning Outcomes
• Be aware of the facilities offered by yacapaca
• As a result of the demonstration, together with the accompanying tutor notes, teachers will be able to set up classes and create quizzes, surveys and ePortfolios.
Introduction to Yacapaca
• Online, free resource
• Allows the creation of courses which contain quizzes or surveys or eportfolios
• Allows courses to be accessed by any teacher
• Allows teachers to access any course
• Pupils can be easily enrolled and assigned a course
• User friendly
• Collaborative
Assessment
• Assessment for Learning
Check Box(Marked out of 4)
Assessment
• Assessment Types
Select the hotspotDrag ‘n Drop
ePortfolios
• emPowering Schools Strategy
• Cross curricular evidence
• Examples of best work
• Reviewed by teachers
• ePortfolio can be kept for time in school
• Backup of pupil’s work
www.yacapaca.com
ePortfolio – student’s viewwww.yacapaca.com
ePortfolio – student’s view
This student has been allocated 3 assignments.
Lets take a look at the ePortfolio.
ePortfolio – student’s view
Each section is regarded as a question.
You can use the Instructions to indicate what each section/question represents
ePortfolio – student’s view
This can be repeated for Maths, Geography, etc.
ePortfolio – student’s view
Students can change the ‘skin’ of their portfolio
ePortfolio – Keeping a backup
Each term or so, students can backup their current ePortfolio. This is saved as a zipped file.
ePortfolio as saved version.
Students now have a backup of their actual work
www.yacapaca.com/teacher
To create a new teacher account
Brief guide
Student’s forename and surname can be copied from an Excel spreadsheet directly.
Brief guide
This always reflects the current student details
These can be cut out and given to
each student
Assignments 1. Select the Category
2. Then the appropriate course
3. Preview a quiz
4. Click on the tick box
5. Click on the Submit button to allocate to your students
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The Markbook Markbook shows the current results for a particular course, e.g. Year 9 Science
The results can be downloaded into an Excel spreadsheet
The Task Results
Double click to see the detail
Task Example - ePortfolio
Listen Here!
Task Example - ePortfolio
Results - Quizzes
Analyse how well the class did for each question
Analyse how well the student did
in the assessment
Hover the mouse to see the question
Hover over the letter to see the actual answer
Results – Quiz Analysis
43% got this question right
This question/topic hasn’t been taught
very well!
Click here to discuss the assessment with
the class
Results – Quiz Analysis
Author
Currently one group set up.
Author
2 classes of questions:
•Quiz
•Multiple-choice survey