Hot Potatoes

Why use it?

o Makes your life easier constructing interactive web games and puzzles.

o Quick and painlesso Excellent learning tool, fun and interactiveo 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 potatoesStart> all programs>hot potato

Hot Potatoes 6 (2).lnk

JQuiz (self graded quiz)Click on JQuiz

TYPE IN NAME OF QUIZ

Click to select quiz type

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 pagefrom the file menu. Then choose the option

“Create Web Page”select the standard format.

This will allow you to saveYour quiz as an html file.

JMatchCreating drag and drop exercises

>Title>Go to options and choose

Configure Output.Choose Titles/instructionsfrom the instructions box –clear the default and addyour 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 informationClick inside the box marked 1 under left (ordered) items. Typeigneous. Hit your tab key to move your cursor to the secondcolumn (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 boxbelow 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 asTo 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.

• Add a title

• Enter your text in the box. You can type paragraphs or numbered sentences if you want to create a series of Qs.

• To create a gap in the text, select a word or phrase and then select the Make Gap button.

• A box will appear where you can add alternative answers along with a specific clue for that gap.

To save> Then choose the option “CreateWeb Page” select the standard

format.

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.