Hot Potatoes: Creating interactive online materials
Download Hot Potatoes from http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
• JCloze: Cloze test (Fill in the blank quiz)
• JQuiz (Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Hybrid, Multiple
Correct)
• JMatch (Matching quiz)
• JMix (Jumbled-Sentence quiz/ Jumbled-Word quiz)
Creating Cloze test with a sound file using Hot Potatoes:
JCloze
1. Open the application Hot Potatoes from Dock and
click Cloze.
2. Type the Exercise Title.
3. Type the JCloze Exercise Text.
4. Highlight a word to Make Gap.
5. Close the JCloze Gap Details Window.
6. Embed the sound file (mp3 file).
Type the following code at the top of the screen
and replace "file_name" with the actual file name.
<embed src="file_name.mp3" width="300" height="16" controller="TRUE" autoplay="false" cache="FALSE" type="video/quicktime"> </embed>
7. Click Show Configuration Window.
Type: Exercise Subtitle
Type: Instructions
8. Click Make a Standard Exercise button.
Type the name and Save.
View in Browser
9. Save the html file and the sound file to your
web server.
Use of JCloze
• Cloze test with song (dictation)
• Cloze test with news (dictation)
• grammar exercise (eg. particles)
• vocabulary building (writing furigana)
If you want to capture sound to use, please check
the capture sound section.
An example of J-Cloze quiz (on-campus only)
JQuiz (Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Hybrid, Multiple
Correct)
1. Open the application Hot Potatoes and click JQuiz.
2. Type Exercise title.
3. Choose the question type.
• Multiple Choice
Write a question.
Write answers and feedback
Check the correct answer
• Text
Write a question
Write answers (which students are required to type
exactly) and feedback.
Check the correct answer
• Hybrid
Write a question.
Write answers
Check the correct answer
Check if you want to include the answer in MC (Multiple
Choice)
• Multiple Correct
Write a question
Write answers
Write feedback
Check correct answers
4. If you want to add text to go with the questions,
go to File> Reading Text and add the title of the text and text.
5. Click Show Configuration Window.
Write the exercise subtitle.
Write the instructions.
If you want to limit the time, Go to Reading> Check Include
Time and
set the appropriate time.
6. Click the Make a standard exercise button.
7. Move the html file to your webserver.
An
example of J-Quiz (on-campus only)
Creating Matching Quiz using Hot Potatoes: JMatch
1. Open Hot Potatoes and choose JMatch.
2. Type Exercise Title.
3. Type the Left (fixed) item.
4. Type the Right (choose-able) item.
5. Click Show Configuration Window.
Type: Exercise Subtitle
Type: Instructions
6. Click either Make a standard Exercise (select
one from choices) or Make a Drag-Drop Exercise.
7. Save the html file to your web server.
An
example of J-Match (on-campus only)
Creating Mixing Quiz using Hot
Potatoes: JMix
1. Open Hot Potatoes and choose JMix.
2. Type Exercise Title.
3. If you want to make a JMix quiz with a word, type
a word with each letter on separate line.
If you want to make a JMix quiz with a sentence,
type a sentence with each word on separate line.
4. Click Show Configuration Window.
Type: Exercise Subtitle
Type: Instructions
5. Click either Make a standard Exercise (select
one from choices) or Make a Drag-Drop Exercise.
6. Save the html file to your web server.
An
example of J-Mix (on-campus only)