This document provides information on how to use the software Hotpotatoes to create educational games. Hotpotatoes allows you to make 6 types of games - JCloze for fill-in-the-blank, JMatch for matching, JQuiz for multiple choice quizzes, JCross for crosswords, JMix for rearranging sentences, and JMemory for memory games. The document explains how to download Hotpotatoes, create games of each type by adding questions, answers, and options to edit colors and text. It also provides examples of games created with Hotpotatoes and suggests making a page with links to all games.

1. How to use
Hotpotatoes?
Comenius project
Water in our lives, january 2014
Maryvonne Boulet-Lequitte

2. What is Hotpotatoes?
• This Free software can be used to build games for educational aims.
• Look at some exemples :
• http://www.frenchexams.org/french_gcse_vocab_games/
• http://www.dlc.fi/~pohalone/kompass2/
• http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?page=articles-a-an-and-the

3. How to get hotpotatoes?
• http://www.winportal.fr/hotpotatoes
Dowload it !

4. Why Hotpotatoes?
• With hotpotatoes, you can create your
own exercises
• For internet
• Or for a DVD without internet
connection

5. Menu
Each potato
lets you create
a type of
exercise

6. What to do with hotpotatoes?
• You can create 6 types of
different games :
• http://www.teaching-tools.de.vu/
Jcloze to
realize gapfill exercises
Jmatch for matching
• You can test here a lot of very
good exercices :
JQuiz to
create MCQ
and Quiz
Jcross to create
2 elements (picture and
text or another file)
Jmix to put
a sentence
in order
crosswords
Jmemory to
create a
memory
The masher is used to create a home page

7. Question
To see the final game
Title
JQuiz
Type of exercise
First
Question
Multiple
choice
answers
right answer
•
Exemples :
•
http://ecolestjeanb
.free.fr/hot_potato
es/tutor4.htm
•
http://ecolestjeanb
.free.fr/hot_potato
es/tutor2.htm

8. Edition :
You can change colors, add
pictures, links, change caracters, all
what you want.
JQuiz

9. Write your text
Jcloze
hint
Choose the
words to
guess
Others
answers

10. Edition :
Jcloze
Click to
discover
the hint

11. Jcross
Write the
words here
Write the
definitions here
Click here to
enter the
definitions

12. Edition :
Jcross

13. Name of the game
Jmatch
Write the solutions in
the same line .
Don’t fix the solutions
!!
Click here to move the solutions
(dynamique page)

14. Edition :
Jmatch
You can now move the
solution next to the
right definition

15. Name of the game
Jmix
Others possibilities
for moving
Write the sentence
using one line for
one block you want
to move
Click here to get a
dynamic page

16. Jmix
Edition :
Move the blocks to
form the right
sentence !

17. Hotpotatoes lets you mash all the games. I personally prefer to
create a page, power point, pdf, html, whatever, with all the curents
links.
To create a memory, use the template here :
Jmemory
instruction
appareance
Appareance and language : You can change all the colors;
letters, add text, pictures, sounds or videos to your page. You can
change the langage too.
All these changes are possible in the menu « option ».
Language

18. Good games !