This document provides information about and instructions for using Hot Potatoes, a free quiz authoring software that can be used to create online quizzes for students. Hot Potatoes allows for the creation of multiple choice, short answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, and matching quizzes. It has an easy to use interface and templates for question, answer, and feedback formatting. The finished quizzes can be integrated into Moodle websites for students to access. The document outlines how to download, install, and use Hot Potatoes to author, preview, and publish quizzes for online administration.

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Hot Potatoes
– Quiz Builder
Computer Assisted Language Learning

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The purpose of Hot Potatoes
This is for creating a quiz
for students to use online.

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Hot Potatoes access
• The software is available for download at
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
• Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of
charge for publicly funded, non-profit,
educational users who make their pages
available on the web. Other users must pay for
a licence.
• Hot Potatoes is free for school use.
• Hot Potatoes must be installed on the
computer before use.

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What is Hot Potatoes?
• This quiz authoring software is downloaded then
installed on your computer. A simple interface is
used to devise a series of questions and to
prescribe the answers, with feedback if required.
• The questions are then assembled into a test
and can be made available to students on your
Moodle website.
• Students receive immediate feedback as they
work on the quiz, though student test results are
not recorded for person who created the quiz.

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Quiz types
• interactive multiple-choice
• short-answer
• jumbled-sentence
• crossword
• matching/ordering
• gap-fill exercises

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Hot Potatoes
• Text and graphics may be included in the
questions as well as links to external files or
websites.
• You can devise a range of feedback
comments for your students to receive
depending on their answers to your
questions.

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Hot Potatoes
• Text and graphics may be included in the
questions as well as links to external files or
websites.
• You can devise a range of feedback
comments for your students to receive
depending on their answers to your
questions.

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Hot Potatoes
• The Hot Potatoes software is easy to use
and intuitive and you do not need to know
how to design or create web pages in order
to use it.
• Many people use the standard “look and
feel” for their questions but you can
customise the colour scheme, formatting,
control buttons and so on.

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Hot Potatoes
• The finished quiz has a simple interface
which students can usually use without any
special instruction.
• Hot Potatoes is very user friendly and
inserts easily into a Moodle site.

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Creating Quizes with Hot Potatoes
• Download the software from the Hot
potatoes website.
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php#downloads
• Install the software onto your computer by
clicking on the file that you downloaded.

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Using Hot Potatoes
• Click on Start
• All programmes
• Select Hot Potatoes
• Click Hot Potatoes 6

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Tutorials for Hot Potatoes
• http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.php
• Google Hot Potatoes for extra tutorials,
resources for Hot Potatoes
• Watch tutorials on YouTube.
• Watch the tutorial within Hot Potatoes

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From this initial screen you can click on the different quiz authoring tools available:
JCloze : gap filling exercises
JQuiz : interactive multiple choice
JCross : crossword
JMatch: matching/ordering
JMix: jumbled sentence
To select click on the hot potato you wish to use 

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Jquiz : Multiple Choice or short answer

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First: Type in the quiz title

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Next type in your multichoice
question.

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Type in the multi-choice answers and click
correct to the answer.

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Place appropriate feedback for each
answer.

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Click the up arrow to move to the next
question.

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Continue adding questions to your
quiz in the same way.

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Don’t forget to save your quiz often. You can save the
quiz and edit at a later date.
Note this is not publishing the quiz for inserting into Moodle. You are just saving the
quiz as a hot potato file.

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Publishing your quiz as a web page
ready to insert into Moodle
Click on the icon export quiz as a hot potatoes web page

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Select a location to save your quiz
webpage and click Save.

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Click on View the exercies in my
browser to check out the quiz.

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Test your quiz before uploading to
Moodle to check for mistakes.

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Doing ok so far.......

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Question 2 is more difficult.....

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When completed you get a score.