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Downloading and installing Hot Potatoes; extending the program to full functionality
Learn about Hot Potatoes and do the different types of exercises: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.php

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice for the World Wide Web:
- short-answer
- jumbled-sentence
- crossword
- matching/ordering
- gap-fill exercises

Download Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php#downloads
'Download Hot Potatoes 6.3 installer' which is the executable *.exe file.

Installing Hot Potatoes
Log in to the computer as administrator. Double-click on the *.exe file.
- When the software is installed, you have a reduced version (e.g. only three JQuiz questions, no Masher…)
- To extend the functionality, you need to register the software.
- In this process you are confirming that you are not using Hot Potatoes for commercial purposes.
- Find instructions on how to register on the Hot Potatoes Help menu
- Hot Potatoes can be installed in different languages, but not (yet) in Russian or Kazakh.
- Once installed you can change the language of the Interface: Options | Interface | Load interface file | language.hif

Activity: creating a multiple choice exercise in Hot Potatoes
Prepare:
- Create a folder with you name on the computer desktop
- (Open Google docs, login and open your 'yourname Millennium Bridge' document

Open program: Start>Programs>Hot Potatoes 6>Hot Potatoes 6>JQuiz

Create a 'multiple choice' exercise
- Insert a title for your exercise (e.g. Millennium Bridge)
- Insert the first of your questions.
- Insert 3-4 answers (only one of them is correct).
- Tick the 'correct' answer

Save the exercise so it can be used by students
- The Hot Potatoes exercises are played in a web browser, exercises are therefore exported to become a web page (an *.htm file). In the matching exercise you can choose if you like to have the optional answers in a drop-down menu or if you want to create a drag-and-drop exercise. We will be creating a drag-and-drop exercise. Go to:
- File>Create Web Page>Standard format
- Give the file a name (Example: MBridge.htm) and select the folder on the desktop you have created before.
- Save
- Before the file is saved, a window pops open and gives you a choice of options: Leave the default, which is 'View the exercise in my browser' and click on this option.
- You can carry the HTML files on a memory stick and open them in class or send them as an attachment to your students.

Save the exercise so you can amend it later
File>Save as> give it a name and place on the computer, where the file is saved to. (E.g. MBridge.jqz).
You can open this file again in the Hot Potatoes program, edit it and add/remove questions.

Other exercise types:
Create a gap fill exercise (JCloze) by using the text in your Google docs.
When creating a crossword exercise you want to know that you can press the button 'Create grid automatically and insert words' and then 'Add clues'.

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