bp14_review3_20091115_YacaPaca and Course Management Tools

There are quite a few Web 2.0 tools that deal with course management. Yaca Paca does a really good job and has an easy to use interface. As I was reading some of my classmates blogs, this is the post that brought me to the Yaca Paca site.

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Monday, November 2, 2009

BP4 20091102 - Researching and Blogging about Web 2.0 Tools

Researching and Blogging about Web 2.0 Tools

So I decided to research the Web 2.0 tool "Yaca Paca!" This is basically a course management system. It is entirely free, and allows you to form your own lessons and quizzes.

Here is the marketing copy from their website.

"Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more

Discover modify and share assessments

Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks

Mark automatically

Analyse with tools that improve your teaching"

http://yacapaca.com/

I was very impressed at the ease of use for this site. I was able to create a quiz in mere moments as well as build a lesson for my class. I am very excited to see what my students think of the site and the lessons/quizzes.

2 comments:

Coleen said...

Ben,

This looks like a very inclusive course management system and the price fits my "college student" budget. The user-friendly interface allows an instructor with minimal experience in media and technology to quickly feel more at ease. I am surprised that there are not more educators taking advantage of the tool. Great tool!

November 11, 2009 9:42 PM

ks reyes said...

I was extremely interested in the courses and content from other countries, I was really excited when I actually found some things for Computer Science. A great site that needs some more play time before I commit. But it looks good, another course management tool that you might want to check out is Moodle.

November 15, 2009 9:26 AM