Hotpot module FAQ: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:24, 5 March 2012

Hotpot is a contributed module allowing Moodlers to upload Hot Potatoes activities to Moodle and have the scores recorded in Moodle's gradebook.
Hot Potatoes is a quiz making program. It is freeware and allows non-technical users easily to create cloze (gap-fill), multiple choice, matching, crosswords and jumbled sentence exercises. Exercises are made offline and then uploaded to Moodle.

The Hotpot activity module can be downloaded from the plugins database.

No.

Not necessarily. According to your display preferences, you can often use the project file (jmt/jcl etc)

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-==Why use Hotpot? ==
+==What is Hotpot? ==
+*Hotpot is a contributed module allowing Moodlers to upload Hot Potatoes activities to Moodle and have the scores recorded in Moodle's gradebook.
+*[http://hotpot.uvic.ca/  Hot Potatoes] is a quiz making program. It is freeware and allows non-technical users easily to create cloze (gap-fill), multiple choice, matching, crosswords and jumbled sentence exercises. Exercises are made offline and then uploaded to Moodle.
+==Where can I get Hotpot from?==
+The Hotpot activity module can be downloaded from [http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_hotpot the plugins database.]
+==Do my students need to have Hot potatoes on their computers to be able to do my quizzes?==
+No.
+==Do I have to upload the .html file Hot potatoes makes for my quiz to work?==
+Not necessarily. According to your display preferences, you can often use the project file (''jmt/jcl'' etc)
-==Why is Hotpot disable by default?==
-Hotpot was and is not open source software.
-* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=105329 Why is Hotpot disabled by default?] forum discussion
 ==See also==
 * Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1599 Hotpot module forum]
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