Yes yes... Note to the world: It helps to actually put feedback in your answer choices...to have feedback displayed on the quiz. Otherwise it defaults to the...
Hi there, You can't prevent cheating, so there's no point in trying. Your student could be sitting at home surrounded by friends and relatives, all with ...
I am a relatively new member to hotpotatoes and still finding my way around the facility! Much of my work involves the use of illustrations - pictures circuit...
Beste Everybody, It's not digital but one can use the Hot Potatoes Clipart Libary ( http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart ) for a game which is in Dutch called ...
Hi there, Just put your cursor in the reading text field, then choose Insert / Picture... Cheers, Martin ... -- Martin Holmes Half-Baked Software, Inc. ...
I am brand new to Hot Potatoes, downloaded it this morning, created a crossword (saved it as a .jcm) and now am trying to export it. Everytime I get the...
... This looks like the card game, "Go fish." I found this explanation <http://www.pagat.com/quartet/gofish.html>. Not exactly, but close enough. Hope this...
Hi there, When you export, Hot Potatoes looks for its "source files" (template files for making the exercise) in a folder called "source" inside its ...
Hi Maida What Martin says is correct. The source files are not where your copy of Hot Potatoes is looking for them. There are three possibilities: 1) that when...
Hi all, I used the onscreen keyboard in JQuiz before (Windows XP, IP6) and I canīt figure out why now is not showing on the exercise Web page. The option...
Hi Roser Thanks for providing the URL. I'm seeing two keys on each of the two short-answer questions on that page using FireFox on Mac OS X. Is that what...
Hi there, It shows up when it's needed -- I see it in questions 2 and 3 of your exercise, which are the only ones where the student needs to enter accented...
Steward, Thanks for responding but I canīt see them at all. I usally see them at the bottom of the exercise but nothing now. I created this exercise by...
OK...I can see the keys if I view one question at a time. If I view all the questions at the same time the keys donīt appear. Is this the way it works? ...
Hi there, What Web browser are you using? I've just tested on IE6, IE7, Konqueror, Firefox and Opera, and I see the keyboard buttons with no problem. Cheers, ...
Yes -- if you have multiple questions visible at the same time, it's not clear which keyboard belongs to which question, so the user might be confused. If only...
Hello everybody, I try store my file of HotPotatoes in eXist database but i can't save correct. There are the changes in the source code of the file. ...
Hi there, This is a collision between a weakness in Hot Potatoes and an unnecessary behaviour in eXist. What happens is this: An empty cell is represented in...
Hi Is there any way to customize scoring by HP e.g. prevent HP from subtracting score for repeat attempts or not allowing the person taking the test to answer...
Hi there, It sounds as though you're trying to create a test, rather than an exercise. Hot Potatoes is not intended for testing; it's for autonomous online ...
If you want to change the scoring algorithm, you'll need to edit the source files that Hot Potatoes uses. There is a javascript variable called "score", so...
Beste Tindrum61, When you import your Potatoe exercise in Moodle, you can come quite a piece. You can use the Moodle facilities ( or the Hot Potatoes ...
This is an act of XML parser. This is also the new specification of W3.org. It's the link http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ So, what can I do? If I change every...
Hi there, I created a Hoppot web site with a version of Hotpot different from which I have now. The text of the navigation bar of my former version was black,...
Hi there, The W3C specification says this: [quote] Empty-element tags may be used for any element which has no content, whether or not it is declared using the...
Hi there, The colour of the text on the navigation bar is controlled by the background colour of the navigation bar. If your navigation bar colour is light,...
Thank you for answering so quickly!!! Here you are the adress of the new page with the white text in the navigation bar. As you can see, all the other pages...
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