Hot+Potatoes+Quiz

=Hot Potatoes Quiz Resources=

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.

Why use Hot Potatoes?
Hot Potatoes is easy to use quiz making software for both the teacher and the student. The software is easily installed on either Microsoft, Linux or Apple computers. Once the quiz exercises have been created on the teacher's computer it is easily uploaded to the Moodle course for the students to access for formative assessment or just practice. The software is very easy to use and has good support material available on the hot potatoes website. The software is free for schools to use.

Tutorial for Hot Potatoes (an excellent tutorials for a first time user)
Tutorial for HotPotatoes

=Links to support Hot Potatoes=

Hot Potatoes Website
Hot Potatoes Website

Hot Potatoes User Group for support
Hot Potatoes User Group for support

Hot Potatoes Downloads
Hot Potatoes Downloads

Try some Hot Potatoes Quizes on the example websites
Hot Potatoes Example websites (try them)

Hot Potatoes Tutorials
Hot Potatoes Tutorials

Hot Potatoes Frequently Asked Questions
Hot Potatoes FAQ

Useful Links for Hot Potatoes
Hotpotatoes examples @http://www.dy-tech.info/hotpot/quiz_page.html Hotpotatoes and Science @http://www.scienceshare.co.uk/hotpotatoes/

=Another useful free tool for creating quizes PEERWISE=

==This is another powerful tool for creating quizes. The power in this tool is that the students create the multi-choice questions which all students are able to take: and get feedback from their attempts. Having the students create the quizes is very powerful for learning in itself. This is software that has been designed by a lecturer at Auckland University which is free for educational use. No software needs to be downloaded and installed, access is via an online website :)==

Why use PeerWise? (from the peerwise website, see link above)

 * PeerWise** is simple to use. A new **PeerWise** repository, accessible by your students, can be created in less than a minute. **PeerWise** complements existing teaching materials and course organisation, and can help to establish a learning community in your class incorporating collaborative learning and peer tutoring,
 * [[image:http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/bin/images/border_index_ask.png]] || Ask... Challenging students to author their own assessment questions requires them to focus on the important concepts and learning outcomes of a course. Developing effective alternatives encourages students to reflect on possible misconceptions, and explaining the answer to a question in their own words reinforces understanding. || [[image:http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/bin/images/warp2.png]] ||
 * [[image:http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/bin/images/border_index_share.png]] || Share... All student-authored questions, answers and explanations are shared with the class, and can be filtered in a number of ways including by course topic, by quality or difficulty ratings, and by popularity. Students can also discover good questions by following authors who have contributed questions they find useful. ||^  ||
 * [[image:http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/bin/images/border_index_learn.png]] || Learn... Students receive immediate feedback when answering questions, including a summary of previously submitted answers. Answered questions can be evaluated for quality and difficulty, and associated discussion threads enable peer-dialogue around each question. Students can request help from their peers, and can improve question explanations. ||^  ||