How to Create Hot Potatoes Quiz - ELT

Hello Readers !

There are many tools to measure a student's comprehensive abilities or any language components. While talking about English language, web 2.0 tools have become more advanced and user friendly to apply all the task based learning to digital platforms. Google for Education has launched several educational products such as Google Meet for online teaching, Jamboard for creating a handwritten notes and infographics, Google Forms for taking a unit end tests, Blogs to share reading resources and material to students and to write a thoughtful and deep thinking activity task given by teacher. But there are plenty of tools which have launched since many years back but still unnoticed to many teachers.

Let's take our classroom learning to another arena of digital teaching learning process.

What is Hot Potatoes?

The Hot Potatoes suite 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. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. The Java version provides all the features found in the windows version 6, except that you can't export a SCORM object from Java Hot Potatoes.

Here is the link. Download Hot Potatoes to your PC/Laptop. or (Click Here).

Here is a well described web resource to read about the tutorial of this program. Some of the sample quizzes are also worth visiting. Click Here.

Here is a video

how to create a quiz using Hot Potatoes.

Thank You!