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
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
To save:
File> Save
Check
box with
correct
answer.
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.
• 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 “Create
Web 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.