Hot Potatoes is installed in Grant Hall 304 under Education Aids (in Start Menu/All Programs) or just do a search for Hot Potatoes.
For uploading your Hot Potatoes, please check out the Jing tutorials below!
Step-by-step instructions:
1. Create a New Folder named "Hot Potatoes" on either Desktop or your jumpdrive.
2. Copy over images you have collected from your USB stick, have the reading text that you used last week for Glossmaker available for copy and paste.
3. Open up Hot Potatoes. We will work with JQuiz, JCloze and the Masher (all shown in the examples on the main page)
4. Click on JQuiz (Open in Beginner mode).
5. Click on "Configure output" under Options and just explore: Titles/Instructions, Prompts/Feedback, Appearance, Timer, Other. (By default, all the programs share one configuration file, you can create specific configuration files for each program or activity with "Save as")
6. Add reading text by clicking on the small book icon: you may add an image and links.
7. Create questions: one MC (Q1) and one Multi-select (Q2): Title, question field, answers, feedback, settings. Embed a YouTube video if you like.
8. Save Hot Potato file (you will always need this file to change the activity later) into Hot Potato folder (name the file so that you will remember what it contains later and no spaces!!), preview the activity by clicking export (this creates an HTML file which will be used for uploading). Your default browser might be IE which sometimes has problems displaying activities correctly. Solution: change default browser or copy and paste preview address into fierfox or google crome.
In the end you should have two files for each activity you created in your Hot Potatoes folder: a Hot Potato file extension containing the activity for later editing (.jqz), an HTM file for exporting/publishing (.htm), and perhaps even a third one: a .cfg for configuration which you might want to save separately for each activity as Hot Potatoes has just one configuration file by default (english6.cfg) in the Program folder. (Under 'Configure Output', click on Save As and name it the same as the activity and htm files) Changing the default configuration file will change the settings across all quizzes or matching exercises for instance and you might want each activity to have a specific output configuration.
If you are working on a PC you should always export your activities as a zip file. That way you can easily upload the zip file to BB and quickly embed your activity into your weebly (see Jing tutorial)
9. The Masher: add the HotPotato files to the Masher (the original files, not the HTMs!), build unit, save Mashup file. You should have two files, an index.htm and the Hot Potato file. Again, export the Mashed activities as a zip file to upload onto BB and embed into Weebly.
10. Uploading to Blackboard (see Jing tutorial below), embedding into Weebly website: copy and paste Blackboard URL into this iframe code as a source, tweak other settings as necessary (width, height, scrolling) and then copy and paste the new code into Weebly Custom HTML.
<iframe src="PASTE LINK HERE" width="100%" height="800" scrolling="yes">
<p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>
For uploading your Hot Potatoes, please check out the Jing tutorials below!
Step-by-step instructions:
1. Create a New Folder named "Hot Potatoes" on either Desktop or your jumpdrive.
2. Copy over images you have collected from your USB stick, have the reading text that you used last week for Glossmaker available for copy and paste.
3. Open up Hot Potatoes. We will work with JQuiz, JCloze and the Masher (all shown in the examples on the main page)
4. Click on JQuiz (Open in Beginner mode).
5. Click on "Configure output" under Options and just explore: Titles/Instructions, Prompts/Feedback, Appearance, Timer, Other. (By default, all the programs share one configuration file, you can create specific configuration files for each program or activity with "Save as")
6. Add reading text by clicking on the small book icon: you may add an image and links.
7. Create questions: one MC (Q1) and one Multi-select (Q2): Title, question field, answers, feedback, settings. Embed a YouTube video if you like.
8. Save Hot Potato file (you will always need this file to change the activity later) into Hot Potato folder (name the file so that you will remember what it contains later and no spaces!!), preview the activity by clicking export (this creates an HTML file which will be used for uploading). Your default browser might be IE which sometimes has problems displaying activities correctly. Solution: change default browser or copy and paste preview address into fierfox or google crome.
In the end you should have two files for each activity you created in your Hot Potatoes folder: a Hot Potato file extension containing the activity for later editing (.jqz), an HTM file for exporting/publishing (.htm), and perhaps even a third one: a .cfg for configuration which you might want to save separately for each activity as Hot Potatoes has just one configuration file by default (english6.cfg) in the Program folder. (Under 'Configure Output', click on Save As and name it the same as the activity and htm files) Changing the default configuration file will change the settings across all quizzes or matching exercises for instance and you might want each activity to have a specific output configuration.
If you are working on a PC you should always export your activities as a zip file. That way you can easily upload the zip file to BB and quickly embed your activity into your weebly (see Jing tutorial)
9. The Masher: add the HotPotato files to the Masher (the original files, not the HTMs!), build unit, save Mashup file. You should have two files, an index.htm and the Hot Potato file. Again, export the Mashed activities as a zip file to upload onto BB and embed into Weebly.
10. Uploading to Blackboard (see Jing tutorial below), embedding into Weebly website: copy and paste Blackboard URL into this iframe code as a source, tweak other settings as necessary (width, height, scrolling) and then copy and paste the new code into Weebly Custom HTML.
<iframe src="PASTE LINK HERE" width="100%" height="800" scrolling="yes">
<p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>