Hot potato and JQuiz

Hot potatoes makes us possible to make quizzes to our students

JQuiz is the most commonly used Hot Potato. With JQuiz you create multiple choice and short-answer quizzes.

You can move to the next question, just like moving to the next answer box, by using the arrows next to the question number. Note that you can choose the question type for each question in the exercise, so one JQuiz exercise can contain four question types.

Fill in the form for question 1.

Type the items in each of the boxes below.

• In the Title box, Type TOOLS

• In the Answers columns, Type:  saw, screw driver, hammer, and pliers (one in each box).

• In the Feedback column, type

Wrong - please try again for A, B, and D. Type CORRECT for C.

• In the Settings column, click on the correct box for answer C. Skip inserting the graphic information in this box until you have typed all the information in the appropriate boxes.

Do it again and again until you think it is enough

SAVE THE EXERCISE

It is advisable to always save your work immediately when you begin and then periodically save it as you continue to work on it. To save it for the first time,

• Click on the Save With a New Name icon.

• You need to save it in the tools folder (which contains the images folder.

• Give it a name—call it tools—and click on Save

A typical Hot Potatoes exercise may contain 10 or more questions. This practice exercise only contains 4 questions.

EXPORTING THE EXERCISE

Let’s test this sample exercises. We need to export (or sometimes called compile) the JQuiz exercise and make it into a webpage which will be viewable by Internet Explorer or Netscape.

• Click on the Export button in the toolbar. A Save As dialog box will appear.

• Find the toolsfolder

• Type a name for the exercise. This name may be different than JQuiz file name you already used. This is the operation that will convert the JQuiz exercise into a webpage document. You must be aware of naming conventions for webpages - especially if you are going to post these on a web server.

When ever you save any file for the web such as a webpage, a graphic, any file, follow these guidelines:

⇒ Use only small case letters

⇒ Do not use any spaces in your file name.                  

⇒ If you want to use 2 or more words in your file name, separate them with an underscore Example: parts_of_speech Type in your file name and click on Save. Use the name: tools.htm

- You don’t have to type.htm. If you don’t, Hot Potatoes will put it in for you.

That’s it! You made your first Jquiz exercise