Hot potatoes

Hot potatoes includes six applications, which enable you to create interactive activities, such as:

1. Multiple-choice
2. Short-answer
3. Jumbled-sentence
4. Crossword
5. Matching/ordering
6. Gap-fill exercises

They can be uploaded to the World Wide Web.

JQuiz:  We can create multiple-choice, true-false, text-entry or short-answer activities. 

JCloze: We can create gap-fill activities.

JCross: We can create crosswords activities.

JMix: We can create jumbled-sentence activities.

JMatch: We can create matching and ordering activities. 

The Masher

It is a tool for automatically compiling Hot Potatoes exercises into units. Imagine that you have five Hot Potatoes exercises that form a single unit materials. you want to build HTML files from all the exercises, with the same colours and appareance settings; you also want to link the exercises together using the navigation buttons, and create and indez file for the unit.

JMatch

The JMatch program creates matching or ordering exercises. A list of fixed items appears on the left (these can be pictures or text), with jumbled items on the right. This can be used for matching vocabulary to pictures or translations, or for ordering sentences to form a sequence or a conversation.

JQuiz

JQuiz an create four different types of question: multiple choice, short-aswer, hybrid ( a short-answer queston that turns into a multiple-choice question after several attemptions), multi-select (in wich the learner has to choose  several of a set of positions, then check the choices).

JCloze

JCloze program creates gap-fill exercises. 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. A specific clue can also be included for each gap. Automatic scoring is algo including. The program allows gapping of selected words, or the automatic gapping of every new word in text.