By first heard the name of this lesson construction software, Hot Potatoes, I thought it should be very difficulty to use, just like solving a complicated problem. However, when I downloaded and installed it, I found it provides a simple and clear interface for teacher to create different types of exercises for students. It offers six applications: Multiple choice, Cloze, Match, Crossword, Short answer and jumbled sentences for teachers to choose from. The multi types of the items can help students learn and test the knowledge from different aspects.
It makes creating exercises based on the class become simple, easy, convenient and fast. It allows teachers to insert passages, pictures, links, media objects in the exercises. Font, colors and size and the reading order of the words can be changed according to the different needs. It also becomes easy and handy for teachers to change, delete, add, move and shuffle the items in the quiz. Hints, clues and feedback of each choices can be edited to make the exercise more personal and interesting for students.
The exercise made with Hot Potatoes can be done online on a web page or be downloaded as a zip package as well as be done on paper by printing it out. Teacher can have the preview of the interface and the print format before starting the exercises.
Teacher can make one single type of exercise as well as mix all of them together in one. In the Masher section, teacher can put all the exercises together to make them as a complete exercise for an unit or a chapter, which is useful to check the degree of the mastery of the knowledge when students play with Hot Potatoes.
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