Yacapaca Assessment

Authoring Guide for Students Introduction Yacapaca Aims 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 hotspot Drag ‘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

ePortfolio – student’s view

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

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

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