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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.
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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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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.
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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
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From this initial screen you can click on the different quiz authoring tools available:
JCloze : gap filling exercises
JQuiz : interactive multiple choice
JCross : crossword
JMatch: matching/ordering
JMix: jumbled sentence
To select click on the hot potato you wish to use
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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
