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Malcolm Roberts Wintec

Hot Potatoes– Quiz Builder

Malcolm RobertsWintec


The purpose of Hot Potatoes

This is for creating a quiz for students to use online.


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/


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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


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


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


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


Jquiz : Multiple Choice or short answer


First: Type in the quiz title


Next type in your multichoice question.


Type in the multi-choice answers and

click correct to the answer.


Place appropriate feedback for each answer.


Click the up arrow to move to the next question.


Continue adding questions to your quiz in the same way.


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.


Publishing your quiz as a web page ready to insert into

Moodle

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


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


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

quiz.


Test your quiz before uploading to Moodle to

check for mistakes.


Doing ok so far.......


Question 2 is more difficult.....


When completed you get a score.


Uploading your Hot Potato quiz to Moodle.• First your quiz web page created by Hot Potatoes

must be saved to a folder on your computer or computer network drive.


Next login to your moodle site and navigate to your moodle

course.

Go to the Administration block and click Files.


Click on Make a Folder


Add title to folder and click Create


Click on the Hot Potatoes folder


Now click upload a file


Click Browse to locate your hot potatoes quiz

file(webpage)


Click on the html file (webpage) you have

saved.

Then click Open.

Donot try to upload your saved Hot Potatoes quiz files that you might also have saved in this folder...They will not work in Moodle!


Click Upload this file


The htm (webpage) has now been

uploaded to your Moodle files.

We can now link to this in Moodle.


Click the home page breadcrumb link to the Moodle

home page.


Click on Add an Activity: then choose Hot Potatoes Quiz


Click on Choose or upload a file


Double click on Hot Potatoes Quizes to find your saved quiz


Click on Choose


File is now inserted into the Moodle Hot Potatoes link


Scroll to the bottom and click on Save and return to course.


Click on the link to your Hot Potatoes Quiz to test.


Quiz now inserted into the Moodle block ready for

students.


Inserting images to a multi-choice quiz

• First: locate your images and load into a folder on your computer clearly labelled.


Clearly label your images and save on computer.


Click on Insert/picture and then Picture from Local File


Select image in folder and then click open. (only gif, jpeg

or png)


Click OK


Code for image is now inserted in answers.


Now type in feedback.


Continue entering images and feedback and tick correct

answer.


Click export to create a Hot potatoes webpage.


View the hot potatoes quiz in your web browser: you will

need to enable active X controls.


The pictures in this type of quiz will only display if used from the

local computer.• For the images to display in Moodle you need to

source the images directly from the internet.


Select Insert/Picture/Picture from Web URL


Go to the webpage with the image you wish to display in quiz.Copy the webpage URL

(control V)


Paste the Link URL and then click OK


Click Export quiz as a webpage.

Upload to Moodle and link.

Test Hot Potatoes quiz.

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