Why use it? o Makes your life easier constructing interactive web games and puzzles. o Quick and painless o Excellent learning tool, fun and interactive o Encourages motivation in students o Immediate feedback

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, to create o interactive multiple-choice, o short-answer, o jumbled-sentence, o crossword, o matching/ordering o gap-fill exercises Open up hot potatoes Start> all programs>hot potato

JQuiz (self graded quiz) Click on JQuiz TYPE IN NAME OF QUIZ Click to select quiz type

Creating a multiple choice quiz o Select Multiple-choice in the drop down menu o Begin creating the questions, answers and feedback. o Type the Questions in the Q(n) box (n=Question number) o Type the acceptable answers (multi choice) in the A,B,C and D boxes under the answers column. o Check the box next to the multiple choice option that is correct under the Settings column o Once all entries are made go to File>Save

Select multi-choice Insert QS Insert answers and feedback Check box with correct answer. To save: File> Save

To publish your quiz Select create web page from the file menu. Then choose the option “Create Web Page” select the standard format. This will allow you to save Your quiz as an html file.

JMatch Creating drag and drop exercises

>Title >Go to options and choose Configure Output. Choose Titles/instructions from the instructions box – clear the default and add your instructions e.g drag rock to work on left >Click the green tick marked OK to return to template. Drag rock to work on left

To add drag and drop information Click inside the box marked 1 under left (ordered) items. Type igneous. Hit your tab key to move your cursor to the second column (right- jumbled items), type granite, and so on!!! This one will not be jumbled!! To save in HTML format: File> create web page>drag/drop> save using same file name

JCross Add title Select Manage Grid and automatic grid maker Add words or phrases on separate lines. Then make the grid!

>Add clues >Click the green button at the bottom once you’ve finished. >Click on add clues again. Two boxes will appear (across + down) start with either box. >Click a word to highlight it. Your cursor will flash in the box below and you can type a clue for it. Then click on red OK button. Then carry on with the rest of the clues. Once finished click on green button. >Under options, choose Configure Output, under Titles/Instructions – make sure quiz has appropriate instructions. To save> File>save as To watch> Create webpage>standard format etc.

JCloze Creates a gap fill exercise. An unlimited number of correct answers can be specified for each gap and the student is able to ask for hints. A specific clue may be added for each gap Automatic scoring Allows the gapping of selected words.

To Upload a hot potato exercise on Blackboard

If you know how to upload a word document on BB, you should be able to upload a hot potato exercise by following these simple steps:  Click on the Control panel of the particular course where you want our hot potato to be in e.g. AC200  Click on course material/course documents  Go into the particular folder where you want it to be.  If you don’t want it in a particular folder, then click on add item, give it a name, enter some description about the exercise (optional), click on browse, find the hot potato html file where you saved it, double click on the file and then press SUBMIT  That’s it!!

Important The key thing to remember when you upload on Blackboard is that you upload the webpage (symbol on the right hand side) which you created rather than the actual exercise where you typed in.