The Hot Potatoes test set consists of six different programs that can be used to create interactive online exercises for assessment. The programs include JMatch for matching exercises, JQuiz for quizzes, JMix for jumbled sentences, JCloze for gap fills, JCross for crosswords, and JMasher to combine different exercise types into test units. Hot Potatoes is free for educational institutions and allows teachers to create traditional and puzzle-based assessments to share online.

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3. The HotPotatoes test set consists of six different programms. Five are the socalled basic test tools and one tool, the Masher, combines the different tests to atest series or test unit.Usingityoucan create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching-ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-makingeducational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

4. Not only can you create traditional assessments, but you also have the opportunity to include crosswords and jumble puzzles. If you want to keep the "Free" feature for educators intact, you have to be able to do without the Masher program. Masher allows you to combine the various exercises together to form a cohesive unit. Hot Potatoesis a very flexible program which generates quizzes, cloze passages or crosswords. It is freely downloadablefromhttp://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

5. JMATACHThe JMatch program creates matching or ordering exercises.

6. A JMatch activity produces a matching or ordering exercise. A list of fixed items appears on one side (these can be images or text), with jumbled items on the other side.

8. JQuiz is used to create question-based quizzes. JQUIZ

9. A JQuiz exercise can contain an unlimited number of questions, from four different question types, and each question can contain an unlimited number of correct or incorrect answers, each with feedback. JQuiz can create four different types of questions: multiple-choiceshort-answerhybrid (a short-answer question that turns into a multiple-choice question after several attempts)multi-select (in which the student has to choose several of a set of options, then check the choices)In short-answer questions, the student’s guess is intelligently parsed and helpful feedback to show what part of a guess is right and what part is wrong. The student can ask for a hint in the form of a “free letter” from the answer.

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12. The JMix program creates jumbled-sentence exercises. JMIX

13. You can specify as many different correct answers as you want, based on the words and punctuation in the base sentence, and a hint button prompts the student with the next correct word or segment of the sentence if needed.It’sveryuseful for languageteachers..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkoyPSBeEZk

14. Creates gap fills with an unlimited number ofcorrect answers.JCLOSE

15. The JCloze program creates gap-fill exercises.

16. Unlimited correct answers can be specified for each gap, and the student can ask for a hint and see a letter of the correct answer.

17. A specific clue can also be included for each gap. Automatic scoring is also included.

18. The program allows gapping of selected words, or the automatic gapping of every nth word in a text.

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20. The JCross program creates crossword puzzles which can be completed online.JCROSShttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DZ5h2JxHQ&playnext=1&videos=gU5nnffd9sc&feature=mfu_in_order

21. MasherIt's used to combine learning tasks.JMASHERhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oNzuIp8Ddw&playnext=1&videos=LSU3FmNts1k&feature=mfu_in_order