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YACAPACA

What is Yacapaca?

Yacapaca is free Web 2.00 tool and a great web tool for both educators and students. It allows the teachers to access a lot of prepared quizes. In addition, teachers can create their own quizes. Quizes can be graded automatically by the program. They can also create surveys, tests,eporfolios, short-text tests. You can share assessment and create homework for your students.

How to use Yacapaca:

1: Go to http://yacapaca.com/

2:Click on I'm a teacher and start by creating an account.

3:Then you should set up your class list and you should give a unique code to each student.

4: You will access to the process of creating new assignment.

5: You should select the course from different sources. After selecting the course, you should choose the assessment. Then, you select the students and click finish to create the activitivy for your students.

Here is my video about creating an assingment in Yacapaca:

Why to use Yacapaca?

The Yacapaca is used for motivating the students.

Students learn to set and manage their own targets.

Using instant, formative and feedback guides the students and make them to look deeper and learn more.

The teachers give the quizes time and this leads students to maintain concentration.

What can you do with Yacapaca ?

As teachers you can set the time for each question
You can personalize each quiz to secure your documents for no cheating
Select the accessibility of your material to others
Create tags so that other teachers can find your quiz

Student's guide:

1. Go to http://yacapaca.com/student/login/?URL=/student/

2. Enter your access key given by the teacher to this cite.

3. You will access to all the work your teacher has assigned for you.

4. When you sign in for the first time, you have to create an account for yourself.

5. Students have to-do lists where there are assignments assigned by the teachers. You should click to any assignment to see more information and start to do it. By clicking go button the students will start to do assignments. Finally, when you click the save button, your teacher will be able to see your work.

Using Yacapaca in EFL classrooms :
Teachers can give feedback to students and the tests become more fun.
Teachers should choose prepared materials by clicking English&Media and choosing TEFL.
There are spelling, grammar, punctuation ...etc. activities in that section. By clicking them the teachers will access to different assignments from the lits.
Usign online sources for students will be more enjoyable. They not only learn doing exercises but also they will be able to use some online tools. The exercise pages are colorful.
Here is an example for a spelling activity.