Hot Potatoes software Prof Hamed Adetunji

Objectives By the end of the lecture, participants will be able to: Install the hot potatoes version 6.3 Understand how it works Negative through the software Use it to formulate MCQs, short answers and matching questions

What is hot potatoes software? The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. The Java version provides all the features found in the windows version, except: you can't upload to hotpotatoes.net and you can't export a SCORM object from Java Hot Potatoes.

Hot potatoes home page

Installations Downloads From HP home page, click Download Hot Potatoes for Windows from here: Hot Potatoes 6.3 installer (Hot Potatoes for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista, version 6.3).

1st run after installation “When you first start up Hot Potatoes, it will ask you for your user name. This name is stored on your computer, and not sent to anyone; it will be inserted into your exercises to identify you as the author. You must provide a user name before you can use all the features of Hot Potatoes.”

Upon double click icon on the desktop

JQuiz This is the aspect we are going to take in this presentation JQuiz is the question-based exercises Can be useful in creating the quiz section of the exam

Steps in JQuiz It is better to have your questions created with the various answer options (A, B, C, D ...). Also better to have your model answer ready.

Open the new page in JQuiz

Hands on demonstration