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1 An introduction to Hot Potatoes Hot Potatoes is shareware from Half-Baked Software which is based at the University of Victoria in Canada. It is a program that allows you to make six different types of self-test exercises. These exercises can also quite easily be imported into an LMS like Moodle to be used for assessment of learning content. Hot Potatoes was originally meant to create language exercises, and some HotPot exercises (like jumbled sentence) have little use otherwise. However, most exercises can be used for any subject. Hot Potatoes is shareware. That means you can freely download the program from the Internet (at Hhttp://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/ ). General description of the program Exercises are made in two steps. First, you create the so-called data file which has a Hot Potato XML extension (like.jcw or.jcl). This file is useless without the Hot Potatoes program but is used to edit the exercises later. The exercises are exported to web-based exercises (which have the HTML extension.htm) which can be displayed anywhere on the Web. Note that you CANNOT RELOAD THE WEB PAGES INTO THE PROGRAM, so it is important to save your data files. Before creating a Hot Potato exercise, you need to think about what you want to achieve with it. Do you want students to learn vocabulary items? Then the gap text (JCloze) or the short answer quiz (JQuiz) are the best choices. If you wish to test text comprehension, the multiple choice (JBC) or matching (JMatch) exercises are more suitable.

2 When you have selected the right exercise, you need to take into consideration its possibilities: Multiple choice questions can be used for any subject. They are most effective when they give good feedback to your learners (why is an answer wrong/correct). Short-answer Quiz questions are good in combination with sound clips, definitions or gap sentences, but keep in mind that there can be only one answer (and if there are more correct answers we must include all of them!). Therefore translation exercises are not a good choice, because there are often many possible correct translations. Also, if spelling is not crucial to your subject, you ll find that you will have to think of all the possible ways learners can spell a word a daunting task! Crosswords bring a playful element into your study material, but they need to contribute something (like testing knowledge or having learners train certain skills). The quality of the clues determines much of the success. Matching exercises can be used in any situation where understanding of a subject can be expressed in the combination of two objects or phrases. It is possible to combine for example pictures with explanations (provided the pictures are small and the explanations not too long. The drag and drop version (DHTML) looks nice but works only with certain browsers!). Cloze texts can be used for any type of fill in exercises, with or without wordlist at the top and with or without extra clues given. Learners are trained in understanding as well as spelling. Cloze texts must not be too long (especially not if they have a wordlist at the top; avoid too much scrolling!) The jumbled sentence exercise is suitable for any type of activity in which the learner has to order something (e.g. the lines of a poem). The instructions to your learners about what is expected of them must always be very clear (in all exercises). When you have finished with the data file, save it, and then create the webbased exercise which you save under the same name as the data file so that you can easily find which ones belong together. Always check the exercise for spelling or punctuation errors you may have overlooked. When you make changes, do that in the data file, then save it again and overwrite the previous web page.

3 JQuiz JQuiz is the most commonly used Hot Potato. With JQuiz you create multiple choice and short-answer quizzes. When creating an exercise, start by configuring the output of the exercise ( ). The output configuration screens are quite similar in the different Potatoes so I ll go through them in detail once, for JQuiz, and show only the main screens for the other Potatoes. The first output configuration screen you see is this: The main thing to pay attention to here is to provide clear instructions to the learners. Note that if you have used this tool before and saved the configuration, the same settings (including the instructions!) will appear when you open the tool to make another exercise. Hence, you should always check the output configuration! The second tab of the configuration window allows you to provide text for different functions. If you want to make an exercise in another language than used in the present configuration, you will have to translate these strings (and you might want to save your translation as a separate configuration file for later use):

4 The Buttons tab allows you to change the language strings for different buttons (The size of the button will change with the length of the string). The points to check on this page is that the "Show Answer" button is not selected and that the navigation bar is equally disabled (unless you wish to connect your exercise to another one). The Appearance tab allows you to set the colour scheme of the exercise. Keep in mind that dark text on a light background, with sufficient contrast, is best for online use. Choose preferably warm soft and harmonious colours.

5 The Timer tab can be skipped since the idea of a timer generally defeats the idea of a self-test exercise. The Other tab is different for each Potato type (see examples further down) as it concerns settings specific to the exercise type. For JQuiz the following settings are advised: The two remaining tabs can be ignored. They deal with the kind of customisation that is not required at present. You can save the settings (or save them as a separate configuration file if you intend to use the same settings again later) and click OK. Now you are ready to start creating the questions of the JQuiz exercise.

6 You can move to the next question, just like moving to the next answer box, by using the arrows next to the question number. Note that you can choose the question type for each question in the exercise, so one JQuiz exercise can contain four question types. Apart from questions and answers, you may enrich the exercise by adding pictures and/or sound files to the questions, or to a reading text ( ) that can accompany the questions. Once you have finished making your questions (and adding extra material where required), you can save your data file ( i.e. the hotpot XML file, in this case with the extension.jqz). This data file you create the stand-alone exercise ( with the extension.htm). It is advisable to give it the same filename as the data file and, initially, to save it in the same location (for all relative links, if any, to function correctly). The question displayed above could look something like this in a finished exercise:

7 Adding pictures to the exercise, as seen in the above example, can enrich, clarify or even be the core of a question. Pictures are added using the picture window that pops up when you click the icon to add a picture from file ( ). The picture link will be inserted at the spot where you placed your cursor. Note that in the above example the link URL to the picture is relative (i.e. the picture file is located in the same folder as the data file). If this is not the case, the tool will create absolute links to the picture file, i.e. the link URL will contain folder names that make it difficult for you to move the exercise to a server.

8 To round off the description of the JQuiz exercise, here is a view of how to make a hybrid question:

9 JCloze JCloze is the Potato module with which you can create gap-fill exercises. Gap-fill, a.k.a. cloze texts, are eminently suitable for vocabulary and text comprehension training, but they can be adapted to other uses as well. When you have your text in the window, you can select the words you wish to turn into gaps one by one with the mouse and click the Gap button. It is also possible to use the Auto-Gap button, but then you probably have to edit the gapped words that the program has chosen (put the cursor on the gapped word and click the Show Words button to bring up the same editor as when you gap a word). You can also remove erroneous gaps by clicking the Clear Gaps button (removes all gaps from the text), or by selecting individual gapped words and clicking the Delete Gap button. When

10 you have finished creating gaps, you must, as always, check the output configuration to be sure the instructions, text strings and other output relate to the exercise you are making. Most of the screens are very similar to those for JQuiz, so here are only the ones that clearly differ: Once you have adapted and saved the output configuration you can save the data file and then export it as a web page to create the exercise. The above example cloze text (without word list or multi-choice gaps) could look something like this:

11 Naturally, there are many variations possible, for example, by adding pictures or sound files to the text. JMatch JMatch allows for the creation of extensive matching exercises, including drag and drop types. Unlike in JQuiz (where a list of questions can be created) only one task can be created per data file and it is displayed on one page. Just as with JCloze and JCross, JMatch is not so suitable for combination with a reading text, because this would complicate the display of the task. The interface window for a JMatch task looks like this: A matching exercise expects student to match items in one list to items in another list, so that a correct list of matching pairs is established. The items can be words (e.g. synonyms or names), or definitions, or even pictures. As a general rule the longer phrase should be in the left hand list, while the shorter phrase can be in the (jumbled) right hand list (so as to ensure the exercise displays well). A matching exercise must not be too long. The longer the list of items is, the more difficult the exercise becomes. In addition the longer the list, the greater the risk of display difficulties, especially in drag and drop versions. It may even block the students from completing the exercise. If the list is long (i.e. if it doesn't fit on one page), you should limit the items shown on the page of the exercise. This can be set in the output configuration:

12 With the above configuration the items are randomly chosen from the ones you created, so that a different set is displayed every time (like in this drag and drop example). Note that, using additional code written by Michael Rottmeier, you can use JMatch to create different exercise types like JMemory. JCross JCross allows you to make online crossword puzzles. This exercise type is often seen as challenging by learners and it can be used for example as a "treasure hunt" exercise in which students are given a keyword, or a link, when they complete the puzzle correctly. To create a crossword you need to create a grid of interlinking words, and add a clue (translation, definition, description, or synonym) for each. The interface for JCross looks like this:

13 When you have created a grid of interlinking words (manually or with the automatic option), you must add clues for each word in the puzzle. When you click the Add Clues button, the following window will pop up listing the words of the puzzle and you can fill in the clue for each one as shown below: When you have saved your clues, you need to check your output configuration to ensure that your instructions and language strings conform to the purpose of your exercise:

14 Finally, if this short introduction did not meet your needs, note that there are many Honline tutorials available in several languages. Also note that the Hot Potatoes site offers Hresources that can be used in combination with Hot Potatoes like code to create even more exercise types and a free clip art library hosted by the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre. Here are a few sites of interest: HStan Bogdanov has wonderful tutorials on how to include video in your exercises. There are also downloadable flash players to control video/audio, but they do require a certain amount of skill in editing html. Exercises at HGrammar Bytes are a good example of a whole course of exercises which support classroom teaching. This page at HEnglish Online France contains links to a number of interesting Hot Potatoes sites not only for language learning but also for Maths, History, Biology and Art. HDiana's Place has more than 100 general knowledge quizzes and games, with audio, video and pictures.

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