Hot Potatoes is a software suite developed years ago at the University of Victoria. It includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. As of November 2019, it has been updated to adapt to HTML5.
Despite using a simple interface, it is very user-friendly and allows teachers to write their own, customized activities and run them:
- on a local network
- on a website
- on Moodle
When using Hot Potatoes on Moodle, teachers and students can see details about all the attempts and statistical information about the performance of each item.
There are, at least, 8 exercise types that can be created with Hot Potatoes. Depending on the exercise type we want to create, we’ll choose a different potato.
To create selected-response or short answer quizzes, we’ll use Jquiz
An example of a multiple-choice grammar activity.