10th&11th hot potatoes

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Hot Potatoes– Quiz Builder

Computer Assisted Language Learning


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The purpose of Hot Potatoes

This is for creating a quizfor students to use online.


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Hot Potatoes access

• The software is available for download at http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

• Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for publicly funded, non-profit, educational users who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.

• Hot Potatoes is free for school use.• Hot Potatoes must be installed on the computer

before use.

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/


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What is Hot Potatoes?

• This quiz authoring software is downloaded then installed on your computer. A simple interface is used to devise a series of questions and to prescribe the answers, with feedback if required.

• The questions are then assembled into a test and can be made available to students on your Moodle website.

• Students receive immediate feedback as they work on the quiz, though student test results are not recorded for person who created the quiz.


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Quiz types• interactive multiple-choice• short-answer• jumbled-sentence• crossword• matching/ordering• gap-fill exercises


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Hot Potatoes

• Text and graphics may be included in the questions as well as links to external files or websites.

• You can devise a range of feedback comments for your students to receive depending on their answers to your questions.


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Hot Potatoes

• Text and graphics may be included in the questions as well as links to external files or websites.

• You can devise a range of feedback comments for your students to receive depending on their answers to your questions.


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Hot Potatoes

• The Hot Potatoes software is easy to use and intuitive and you do not need to know how to design or create web pages in order to use it.

• Many people use the standard “look and feel” for their questions but you can customise the colour scheme, formatting, control buttons and so on.


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Hot Potatoes

• The finished quiz has a simple interface which students can usually use without any special instruction.

• Hot Potatoes is very user friendly and inserts easily into a Moodle site.


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Creating Quizes with Hot Potatoes

• Download the software from the Hot potatoes website. http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php#downloads

• Install the software onto your computer by clicking on the file that you downloaded.

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php#downloads


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Using Hot Potatoes

• Click on Start• All programmes• Select Hot Potatoes• Click Hot Potatoes 6


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Tutorials for Hot Potatoes

• http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.php

• Google Hot Potatoes for extra tutorials, resources for Hot Potatoes

• Watch tutorials on YouTube.• Watch the tutorial within Hot Potatoes

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.php


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From this initial screen you can click on the different quiz authoring tools available:

JCloze : gap filling exercisesJQuiz : interactive multiple choiceJCross : crosswordJMatch: matching/orderingJMix: jumbled sentence

To select click on the hot potato you wish to use


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Jquiz : Multiple Choice or short answer


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First: Type in the quiz title


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Next type in your multichoice question.


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Type in the multi-choice answers and click correct to the answer.


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Place appropriate feedback for each answer.


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Click the up arrow to move to the next question.


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Continue adding questions to your quiz in the same way.


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Don’t forget to save your quiz often. You can save the quiz and edit at a later date.

Note this is not publishing the quiz for inserting into Moodle. You are just saving the quiz as a hot potato file.


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Publishing your quiz as a web page ready to insert into Moodle

Click on the icon export quiz as a hot potatoes web page


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Select a location to save your quiz webpage and click Save.


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Click on View the exercies in my browser to check out the quiz.


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Test your quiz before uploading to Moodle to check for mistakes.


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Doing ok so far.......


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Question 2 is more difficult.....


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When completed you get a score.

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