This document describes an interactive exercise tool called Hot Potatoes that was developed by the University of Victoria, Canada. It allows users to create six different types of self-test exercises and assessments without needing advanced technical skills. The software is free to download and use. It includes applications for multiple choice questions, gap fills, matching, crosswords, ordering, and jumbled sentences. Teachers can use it to easily create interactive exercises for students in any subject area or language.

1. An Interactive Exercise Tool

2. Research and Developed by the University of Victoria,
Canada.
First released in version 2.0 in September 1998F
Freeware since October 2009.
To make six different types of self-test exercises for
assessment
We can download this software from this link
www.hotpot.uvic.ca
Software Installation tutorial link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0lVmq52zMQ

3. Features :
•Includes 5 applications - JQuiz, JCross, JMix, JMatch, JCloze.
•Enables users to create interactive based teaching
exercises.
•Allows users to upload the Web pages to their servers.
•Allows to alter the default source files and configuration file
location.
•User-friendly and very easy to use.
•Multi-language support.
•Its FREE! Its Freeware & It is free shareware

4. Benifits :
 It is self-evaluate and interactive tool
 It is useful to the teacher to evaluate the learners in
different ways
 It does not require much techno-literacy on the part of
users.
 This program can be very useful for any subject teacher
in creating different types of
 interactive exercises including multiple-choice and
short-answer questions, jumbled sentence items,
crossword puzzles, and matching/ordering or gap-fill
exercises.
 We can create exercises in almost any Indian regional
language desired

5. About the Program :
The Hot Potatoes program consists of five
applications for creating different types of interactive
exercises i.e.,
Jquiz
Jcloze
Jmatch
Jcross
JMix.

6. Interface of Hot Potatoes:

7. Different Interactive Tools for Exercises
Jquiz:
JQuiz is the most commonly used Hot Potato.
With JQuiz you create multiple choice and quizzes.
JCloze:
JCloze is the Potato module with which you can create
gap-fill exercises.
JMatch:
JMatch allows for the creation of extensive matching
exercises, including drag and drop types.

8. Different Interactive Tools for Exercises
JCross:
JCross allows you to make crossword puzzles.
JMix:
The JMix program creates jumbled-sentence
exercises.

9. How do the programs work ?
There are three stages in creating exercises with these
programs:
1. Enter your data
You type in the questions, answers, feedback etc. which
forms the basis of the exercise. See Entering and saving data
for more information on this.
2. Adjust the configuration
The "configuration" is a set of information used to compile the
Web pages. It includes instructions for the student, captions
for navigation buttons, and other information which is not likely
to change much between exercises.
3. Create your Web pages
This is simply a matter of pressing the "Export to Web" button
on the toolbar, choosing a file name, and letting the program
do the rest.

11. Main Screen of JQuiz

12. Main Screen of JCloze:

13. Main Screen of JCross:

14. Main Screen of JMix:

15. Main Screen of JMatch:

16. Click the a Web Page button and create a WebPage and save it on desired path

17. Web Page View button

18. Extra Features:
•We can provide hints while learners
answering the questions
•We can insert Images, Videos and Audio
files in the questions.
•We can change the font size and colour also
•We can add Timer for answering the
questions
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