Yacapaca Training & Support Package

Price: £295.00
Age Range: Adult

CD-ROM training package, plus one year's technical support, for your entire institution.

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Now that our online assessment platform Yacapaca is completely free, many users will want to roll it out across the whole school. To help, we have put together this innovative package of training and technical support at an astoundingly low introductory price.

A complete training course on how to use the system to set, mark and author different assessment types using the system. The course is delivered on CD-ROM and through Yacapaca itself. It uses a mix of video, tests and text resources to create a compelling package that any teacher can use to become expert in the system. Teachers can follow the course at their own pace, or take it together in a group.
Unlimited email support for a whole year.

About Yacapaca

Create, share, set, mark and analyse assessments for your students using Yacapaca. Since Sept 1st 2006, Yacapaca has been completely free.

Writing your own tests is free
Using tests already on the system is free
Getting tests auto-marked is free
Analysing the results is free
Creating ePortfolios is free
It's all free!

This training and support package is strongly recommended when you want to start using Yacapaca across the school, but purchasing it is not a requirement of access.

With over 1.4 million members, Yacapaca is probably already being successfully used by at least one department within your school. The benefits to you of Yacapaca are:

Encourages ICT use in every subject
Saves on marking so frees teachers up for more productive work
Enjoyable and motivating for students
High quality analysis of results leads to better-targeted teaching
Helps implement Assessment for Learning across the school

If you have not seen Yacapaca, start here and see for yourself what it can do for your school, for free.

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Contents List

Training modules on the CD-ROM:

Getting started
Signing up (sample), Adding and removing students (sample), sharing students with other teachers, Assigning tests.
Taking tests (student)
Students' details, selecting an Avatar, finding & starting a test, setting a personal target, randomised questions, answer options, formtive feedback.
Results
The markbook, interpreting detailed responses, analysing by question, analysing by theme, using the whiteboard analysis screen, using Advanced Search.
ePortfolio
Creating ePortfolio tasks, instructions and questions, attaching files, publishing your task, creating short-text tests, setting and managing tasks, marking tasks, viewing ePortfolios, commenting on ePortfolios, ePortfolio status codes, exporting to a standalone website.
ePortfolio (Student)
Logging in, starting an ePortfolio, attaching files, the word processor, choosing a skin, preview, exporting your finished ePortfolio.
Authoring tests
Finding and joining an authoring group, creating a test bank, tagging and editing, compiling tests, creating questions, editing questions, different question types (choose-one, checkbox, cloze), creating surveys.
Adding images to questions and tests
Sizing images correctly, uploading images, use of images in different question types, images as test backgrounds.
The Grade Grid
Grade Grid overview, filtering questions, weighting questions, calibrating the grade grid, points and scoring, determining the top and bottom range, final results.