I have an instructor that would like to give no feed back just one attempt before going to the next question. How can I remove the check button... or just...
Hello, Is there any way to prevent images overlapping each other when the user loads a jmt exercise with images and words? This is my problem: I have made a...
Hi Dave I suggest you look at this tutorial on how to make hot potatoes act more like a test: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/howto/maketest.htm To do more...
Hi Mikko Please post the URL so we can see exactly what's going on. ... Stewart Arneil University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre Half-Baked...
Hi there, ... It sounds as though your colleague wants to do testing, rather than real interactive exercises. Hot Potatoes is not intended for testing; it's ...
Hi, I have a quiz that uses branching based on scoring, so if the user obtains a passing score of 80 or better they are redirected to a page to enter credit...
Hi there, If you eliminate the popup code completely, then of course it will never show up at all. What you need to do is to look for calls to ShowFeedback(),...
Thanks, that did the trick. I was wondering why the image tag is different from "normal html". Found the reason! Well I only have about 120 exercises to...
Hi there, ... It's XHTML. Hot Potatoes files are XHTML 1.1, and old-fashioned HTML tags will not work properly. This tutorial helps to explain the difference: ...
Thank you for your answer. I've looked at your suggestion, but I must admit, that I have a hard time understanding how this can be achieved. This external FAQ ...
Hi. I'm finally starting to use Java Hot Potatoes in earnest, and I'm running into some surprises. (So far, I'm only using JQuiz.) Here are a few of my...
Hi Henri, I think Stew will answer this soon -- I'm just responding to let you know that we're not ignoring it! We had an email outage yesterday, so he may not...
Hi Thanks for the feedback. Sorry for the delay in replying. It just slipped my mind what with various technological adventures my computer has put me through...
Stewart, Thank you for your prompt reply. I'm embedding my responses within after your replies below. ... Ok. I just replicated the behavior. I created a...
Stewart, I'm humming along now, using those html shortcuts, but I've found one that doesn't work properly. Typing Shift+CTRL+Apple+D (for an alert) yields: <a...
Hi Henri You're right. There's a quote mark instead of a colon in that accelerator. I'll fix that for the next release. That's funny, I seem to recall fixing ...
Hi Henri I have managed to reproduce the problem you report. When you close on exercise and start another, the data structure is supposed to be cleared out and...
Good work hunting that down, Stewart. And thanks in general for all of your prompt support. I cannot even begin to imagine even being able to contact the...
Hi Martin and Stewart, Here are four features that I think might be useful in jquiz: 1. Allow the user to move between answer/feedback boxes using up, down,...
Hi there, ... I think that's more an issue of tab order. We certainly don't want to use the arrow keys, because they're used when editing text. In the Windows...
Thank you for your answers, Martin. In reading them it reminds me of just how wonderfully versatile the program is. One can use it in so many different ways...
I have just set up my first JQUIZ. Is there any way to prevent the students from bypassing a question by just pressing the "next question" arrow. That is, I...
Hi there, That rather runs against the philosophy of HotPot, but it is possible if you're prepared to edit some code. This tutorial explains how to edit the...
In response to reports from Henri, I've made the following changes: In all potatoes, the keyboard accelerator command-ctrl-shift-d has been fixed so that it...
Hi Henri Martin's covered most of your more recent questions. I can add that in Java Hot Potatoes, the tab order includes all the components, not just the...
Hi there, ... I looked at the Windows code and discovered that, although I can fix it so that you go through all the answers, then through all the feedback, I ...
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