How to use Hot Potatoes Akita Prefectural University Mamoru “Bobby” Takahashi 1 http://www.slideshare.net/MamoruTakahashi
Jun 21, 2015
How to use Hot Potatoes
Akita Prefectural UniversityMamoru “Bobby” Takahashi
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Put your questions into Quizzes
• JQuiz: short answer quiz maker• JMix: sequencing exercises maker• JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker• JMatch: matching exercises maker• JCross: crossword maker
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JQuiz: short answer quiz maker
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JQuiz: short answer quiz maker
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JQuiz: short answer quiz maker
Save data file as…
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JQuiz: short answer quiz maker
Click this button to create an html file.
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JQuiz: short answer quiz maker
Create a standard exercise by giving it a name and saving it.
The button opens a window like this.
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JQuiz: short answer quiz maker
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JQuiz: short answer quiz maker
A new quiz looks like this.
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JMix: sequencing exercises maker
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JMix: sequencing exercises maker
Fill the Main Sentence box by breaking the sentence into segments.
Do the same thing for the Alternate Sentence.
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JMix: sequencing exercises maker
Save the quiz.
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JMix: sequencing exercises maker
The button opens a window like this.
Save the quiz as an html file.
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JMix: sequencing exercises maker
A new JMix quiz looks like this.
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Moodle Quizzes
Oh, by the way, you can create these types of quizzes using Moodle 1.6 , but you can’t create JMix type of sequencing quizzes with Moodle.That’s why you need to use Hot Potatoes.
Moodle Quizzes
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JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker
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JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker
Fill the space with a chunk of text.
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JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker
The button saves the file as a .jcl file.
Save the quiz as an html file.
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JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker
Save the data
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JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker
Then save the same file as an html file.
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JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker
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JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker
Open the html file and the gap-fill exercise looks like this.
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JMatch: matching exercises maker
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JMatch: matching exercises makerFill the boxes with definitions and words. Oh, by the way, you can use Japanese, too.
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JMatch: matching exercises maker
Save the data as a Jmatch (.jmt) file.
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JMatch: matching exercises maker
Save the file as a htlm file.
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JMatch: matching exercises maker
A matching exercise is created!
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Different kinds of quiz files were created!
• JQuiz: short answer quiz maker (.jqz)• JMix: sequencing exercises maker (.jmx)• JCloze: gap-fill exercises maker (jcl)• JMatch: matching exercises maker (.jmt)• [JCross: crossword maker (.jcw)]
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