What is Hot Potatoes?

  

I WILL JUST INTRODUCE AND SUMMARIZE AMAZING SOFTWARE  "HOT POTATOES" TO YOU.

JUST TAKE A LOOK.

and for more: (reference)

https://www.albany.edu/faculty/meskill/03%20TALL/handouts/disk%201/Tuesday/Interactive%20Exercises/Hotpotato%20examples/Using%20Hot%20Potatoes.htm

I. What is “Hot Potatoes”?

       

        The “Hot Potatoes” is a suite of quiz/drill-authoring software created at the University of Victoria, Canada. It includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive exercises:

l      multiple-choice quizzes (JBC)

l      gap-fill exercises (JClose)

l      text-entry (short-answer) exercises (JQuiz)

l      crosswords (JCross)

l      jumbled-sentence/jumbled-word (drag-and-drop) exercises (JMix)

l      ordering/matching (drag-and-drop) exercises (JMatch)

Now you can go to the tutorial folder to look at some examples of the kinds of exercise you can make using Hot Potatoes.

II. How can you download and register “Hot Potatoes”?

        This software is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their exercises available on the web. However, if you are working in a commercial context, you need to pay for a licence. You can download “Hot Potatoes” version 5.5.0, self-extracting, auto-installing zip file at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/#downloads.

Whether you are commercial or otherwise, you need to register the programs. You have to fill in a form on their website http://142.104.133.52/admin/register.htm and get a registration key from them. You will use your personal key to unlock all the features of the programs. When you receive the key, simply start one of the Potatoes (any one will do), then click on the Help menu and choose Register. Then you can enter your User Name and Key.