Description

Hot Potatoes allows you to create simple or complex online tests for use in the classroom. You may want to provide pupils with end of topic tests or to use the tests as revision exercises before examinations. You can create multiple choice items cloze procedures crosswords short answer questions and matching exercises. Hot Potatoes provides a way delivering all these things through a web browser. This intermediate opportunity will introduce the Hot Potatoes working environment and tools and take you step-by-step through the process of creating simple yet effective tests. You will learn to create and organise your tests into linked exercises and you will find out the first steps in enhancing the visual appeal of what you are creating.

Content:

1. Creating examples of different questioning structures
2. Formatting your Hot Potatoes exercises
3. Saving your exercises as web based materials
4. Linking exercises together

Level: Proficient users

Audience: All Teachers

Pre Skills:

1. Competence in the basic skills in a Windows environment and good knowledge of web page design.
2. Proficiency in Windows navigation and file management

Hardware: Personal computer (PC)

Software:

1. Hot Potatoes
2. Microsoft Word 2003
3. Microsoft Word 2007