HOW TO MAKE E- TEST BY HOT PATOTOES.
E- TESTING SOFTWARE: HOT POTATOES
Available at: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
The Hot Potatoes suite is a set of six authoring tools, created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria.
They enable you to create interactive Web-based exercises
of several basic types. The exercises are standard Web pages using XHTML
1.1 code for display, and JavaScript (ECMAScript) for interactivity.
You don't need to know anything about XHTML or JavaScript to use the programs.
All you need to do is to enter your data -- texts,
questions, answers etc. -- and the programs will create the Web pages
for you.
Then you can post them on your Web site.
The Help file contains a more detailed list of new features
and changes, but these are the primary differences between version 5.5
and version 6.0:
Unicode support, so you can create exercises in
virtually any language or in a mixture of languages. Unicode support is
only enabled on Windows 2000 or XP; earlier versions of Windows do not
support it.
Mixed question types in quiz.
JBC (multiple-choiceJQuiz( short-answer )JMix(Jumbled
Sentence)JCross( Crossword puzzle)JMatch( Matching/Ordering)Jclose( Fill
up the gap, check, hint)
Other information
We can change number of alternativesDifferent feedback for
each alternativeItems are selected randomlyAlternatives are presented
randomlyThere is no database, only web pagesScoring is displayedMore sophisticated scoring in JQuiz. Questions can now be weighted, and individual answers can be given a "percentage correct" setting.Simple output format. Instead
of the old frames-based format, in which the content of exercise pages
was written from JavaScript, the new XHTML-based pages are simpler and
allow easier editing of the output pages in WYSIWYG editors such as
Dream Weaver.A timer can now be placed on exercises, rather than on associated reading texts as in previous versions.