HI there,

You can use the XHTML tags <sub> and <sup>. You can insert these
automatically; for instance, select some text in a question in JQuiz,
then press Control + Shift + the "up" arrow key to add a <sup> tag, or
Control + Shift + the "down" arrow to make it <sub>.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-01 05:33 AM, davanzomaria wrote:
> how to add superscripts and subscripts in data file JQuiz?
>
>

Thanks, another question acora to insert Greek letters or symbols?

--- In hotpotatoesusers@yahoogroups.com, Martin Holmes <mholmes@...> wrote:
>
> HI there,
>
> You can use the XHTML tags <sub> and <sup>. You can insert these
> automatically; for instance, select some text in a question in JQuiz,
> then press Control + Shift + the "up" arrow key to add a <sup> tag, or
> Control + Shift + the "down" arrow to make it <sub>.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 12-03-01 05:33 AM, davanzomaria wrote:
> > how to add superscripts and subscripts in data file JQuiz?
> >
> >
>

Thanks, to insert Greek letters or symbols, as you do, there is some table?

Hot Potatoes pages use unicode characters. There are a variety of ways
to insert characters into a page. Your Operating System (Windows, Mac,
Linux) will have some kind of character map utility program that allows
you to find the character and insert it, if you haven't found any other
way of inserting characters.

If you want to provide a button on your Hot Potatoes page for each
non-Roman character that you want the user to be able to insert, choose
options/configure window then click on the Other tab, check the "Include
keypad for non-Roman ..." and paste in each character for which you want
a button.


On 12-03-01 7:52 AM, giovanna wrote:
> Thanks, another question acora to insert Greek letters or symbols?
>
> --- In hotpotatoesusers@yahoogroups.com, Martin Holmes<mholmes@...>  wrote:
>>
>> HI there,
>>
>> You can use the XHTML tags<sub>  and<sup>. You can insert these
>> automatically; for instance, select some text in a question in JQuiz,
>> then press Control + Shift + the "up" arrow key to add a<sup>  tag, or
>> Control + Shift + the "down" arrow to make it<sub>.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>> On 12-03-01 05:33 AM, davanzomaria wrote:
>>> how to add superscripts and subscripts in data file JQuiz?
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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>

Hi there,

HotPot supports Unicode. Whatever method you normally use for typing
Greek, you can use to type into HotPot. If you don't use a keyboard, you
can always use the Character Palette to find characters you want and
copy them.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-01 08:08 AM, giovanna wrote:
> Thanks, to insert Greek letters or symbols, as you do, there is some table?
>
>

Hi,

This is for chemistry exercises with chemical equations and formulas.

When I gap a chemical formula with subscripts, say for instance water, I don't
expect student to fill the gap with H<sub>2</sub>O (water formula with html code
to display subscripted 2 correctly) so I have as an accepted alternate answer
set H2O which the students would naturally type. But I want the gapped first
answer to replace the textbox as it displays the subscripts correctly, not the
typed alternate answer - formula looks odd with nonsubscripted numbers.

I assume the solution is to modify the jclose6.js_ file, I tried a few things,
but no luck. I guess I need the function that displays the answer to display the
first answer for that gap.

Any hints or pointers to how to do this?

Thanks,
Art

Hi there,

JCloze answers are plain-text only, I'm afraid; you can't use text
formatting in the answers, only in the pure display text. You'd have to
create an alternative array of "styled answers" in the JavaScript, and
have the answer display code use that instead of the answers which are
used for correcting the student's input.

You could also consider using actual subscript characters, where they
exist. Subscripted and superscripted characters for 0 through 9 are
available in Unicode. Then you could set the option to have a keypad
available so the student can "type" the superscripted character. There's
more info here:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts>

This would work because your superscripts and subscripts would be just
"text", not text styling. There's a limited number of characters
available in super and sup form, though.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-02 12:43 PM, aimercer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is for chemistry exercises with chemical equations and formulas.
>
> When I gap a chemical formula with subscripts, say for instance water, I
> don't expect student to fill the gap with H<sub>2</sub>O (water formula
> with html code to display subscripted 2 correctly) so I have as an
> accepted alternate answer set H2O which the students would naturally
> type. But I want the gapped first answer to replace the textbox as it
> displays the subscripts correctly, not the typed alternate answer -
> formula looks odd with nonsubscripted numbers.
>
> I assume the solution is to modify the jclose6.js_ file, I tried a few
> things, but no luck. I guess I need the function that displays the
> answer to display the first answer for that gap.
>
> Any hints or pointers to how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Art
>
>

Hi, it's been long. Sorry to bother you but I've using hotpotatoes to generate
my activities but it reached a place where it's asked me to register. I'm stuck
coz I thought we don't need to register anymore. I can't generate exercise. Help
am worried
Envoyé de mon iPhone

If you have the latest version of Hot Potatoes (6.3). then you don't
need to register. You can get the latest version from
<http://hotpot.uvic.ca/>.

Please note that this does not apply to the hotpotatoes.net hosting
service. That is a commercial service provided by a UK company, and it
is not free.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-11 07:05 AM, Juma wrote:
> Hi, it's been long. Sorry to bother you but I've using hotpotatoes to
> generate my activities but it reached a place where it's asked me to
> register. I'm stuck coz I thought we don't need to register anymore. I
> can't generate exercise. Help am worried
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>
>

Hi All

Is it possible to use Hotpotato as an assessment tool: load some questions as a
quiz and then ask users to answer some questions in the quiz and mark the users
based on their given answers?

Regards
Farhad

Hi there,

If the assessment matters for any reason (i.e. if you don't want
students to be able to cheat), then you should never use a
computer-based system for assessment unless you have physical control
over all the students while they're doing the assessment.

If the assessment isn't important -- if you just want to gather some
information about what students have understood and what they're having
trouble with, and give them some feedback to help them -- then by all
means use Hot Potatoes exercises, in conjunction with a server-side
system such as Moodle or hotpotatoes.net.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-11 06:04 PM, farhad wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Is it possible to use Hotpotato as an assessment tool: load some
> questions as a quiz and then ask users to answer some questions in the
> quiz and mark the users based on their given answers?
>
> Regards
> Farhad
>
>

Thanks Martin.

There is a physical control over the assessment which is going to be used for
diagnostic purpose, so I am very keen to use Hotpotato as an assessment tool. I
have also access to Moodle. Could you please guide me how should I set up my
assessment by using Moodle?

Regards
Farhad

--- In hotpotatoesusers@yahoogroups.com, Martin Holmes <mholmes@...> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> If the assessment matters for any reason (i.e. if you don't want
> students to be able to cheat), then you should never use a
> computer-based system for assessment unless you have physical control
> over all the students while they're doing the assessment.
>
> If the assessment isn't important -- if you just want to gather some
> information about what students have understood and what they're having
> trouble with, and give them some feedback to help them -- then by all
> means use Hot Potatoes exercises, in conjunction with a server-side
> system such as Moodle or hotpotatoes.net.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 12-03-11 06:04 PM, farhad wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Is it possible to use Hotpotato as an assessment tool: load some
> > questions as a quiz and then ask users to answer some questions in the
> > quiz and mark the users based on their given answers?
> >
> > Regards
> > Farhad
> >
> >
>

• Moodle 1.9 Hot Potatoes 
• Moodle 2 Installing the HotPot Module

In general, it's better to ask questions about Hot Potatoes in Moodle in the Hotpot module forum.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi there,

You can put something like this into the Instructions field:

<div style="text-align: left; font-size: 110%;">
This is the first line of instructions.<br/>
This is the second line of instructions.<br/>
This is the third line of instructions.
</div>

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-15 12:48 AM, Sarah Corr wrote:
> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from Sarah Corr included below]
>
> Hello,
> I have created a Hot Potato exercise and attached some instructions
> using a tag. I want to style these instructions into 3 lines, each
> aligned to the left and change the font size - is this possible?
> Kind regards,
> Sarah
>

Beste Martin,

It's quite a while ago that I made a Sequitur. But now I did and I notice that I
can't really save a configuration.
If I have made an exercise and I type in the  instruction box  for instance: 
Start with the sentence:  Once upon a time there was ..."
After that I make another exercise with another starting line ( let's say "The
fish was very big now")
Then I have a extra look in my first exercise and I see that there is also the
instruction  about the fish instead of what it was : Once upon a time"
Is it always been like this? It is very unpractical. Can I do something about
it?

Hgv, Henny

HI Henny,

I think you must have unchecked "Reload configuration info from file" on
the Options menu. That should be checked by default. If you uncheck it,
then when you load a data file, the configuration information that was
saved with it will be ignored.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-15 01:05 PM, henny wrote:
> Beste Martin,
>
> It's quite a while ago that I made a Sequitur. But now I did and I
> notice that I can't really save a configuration.
> If I have made an exercise and I type in the instruction box for
> instance: Start with the sentence: Once upon a time there was ..."
> After that I make another exercise with another starting line ( let's
> say "The fish was very big now")
> Then I have a extra look in my first exercise and I see that there is
> also the instruction about the fish instead of what it was : Once upon a
> time"
> Is it always been like this? It is very unpractical. Can I do something
> about it?
>
> Hgv, Henny
>
>

Beste Martin,

In this exercise
http://www.digischool.nl/oefenen/hennyjellema/engels/comprehension/anansi/anansi\
.01.htm
  the size of the HBS-player is width="200" height="80"
For clear reasons  I would like to have more widt ( 400 or so)  and less height
( 60 or 50 would be fine)
But that seems not possible whatever I try. Why is that?

Hgv, Henny

Hello:
I've made a short multiple choice quiz - but when I create the web file - NO
questions are shown although the file is created.

Gordon - I've used your prior invitation to put something up on your moodle
testing site- so I have put up the file in the hope that someone can see what is
going on: http://bateson.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/19/mysql/course/view.php?id=2
It's called: Jquix test of web resource. I put both the web file and the data
file in a folder in the files area - called Jquiz problem.

I tried once and got this result. So thinking I may have altered something in
the 'other' instructions, I re-did it and left the
'other' instructions as they were.

I have copied some parts of the questions and answers from a word file (and in
the original word file these would have had a background colour). Perhaps that
is a problem???

Thanks a lot,

Kathy

HI Henny,

This is what the code for your object says:

<object data="hbs_mp3_player2_1px_narrow slider.swf " width="200"
height="80" style="vertical-align:
bottom;"type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="type"
value="application/x-shockwave-flash"/><param
name="src"value="hbs_mp3_player2_1px_narrow slider.swf "/><param
name="data"value="hbs_mp3_player2_1px_narrow slider.swf "/><param
name="codebase" value="hbs_mp3_player2_1px_narrow slider.swf " /><param
name="FlashVars" value="TheSound= part.01.mp3" /><param
name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param
name="movie"value="hbs_mp3_player2_1px_narrow slider.swf "/><param
name="loop"value="false"/><param name="quality"value="high" /><param
name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object>

It explicitly sets the width to 200 and the height to 80. Can you try
changing it to the values you want, and create the exercise again?

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-18 12:55 PM, henny wrote:
> Beste Martin,
>
> In this exercise
>
http://www.digischool.nl/oefenen/hennyjellema/engels/comprehension/anansi/anansi\
.01.htm
>
> the size of the HBS-player is width="200" height="80"
> For clear reasons I would like to have more widt ( 400 or so) and less
> height ( 60 or 50 would be fine)
> But that seems not possible whatever I try. Why is that?
>
> Hgv, Henny
>
>

Sorry, I don't have an account on that server. Could you put the page
somewhere public which doesn't require a login?

Thanks,
Martin

On 12-03-18 03:39 PM, kathyturnerkt wrote:
> Hello:
> I've made a short multiple choice quiz - but when I create the web file
> - NO questions are shown although the file is created.
>
> Gordon - I've used your prior invitation to put something up on your
> moodle testing site- so I have put up the file in the hope that someone
> can see what is going on:
> http://bateson.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/19/mysql/course/view.php?id=2
> It's called: Jquix test of web resource. I put both the web file and the
> data file in a folder in the files area - called Jquiz problem.
>
> I tried once and got this result. So thinking I may have altered
> something in the 'other' instructions, I re-did it and left the
> 'other' instructions as they were.
>
> I have copied some parts of the questions and answers from a word file
> (and in the original word file these would have had a background
> colour). Perhaps that is a problem???
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Kathy
>
>

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the hotpotatoesusers
group.

   File        : /week5bulletpointstry.jqz
   Uploaded by : kathyturnerkt <kathyturnersemail@...>
   Description : Exercise 5 seems to create a problem - fine without it!! JQuiz

You can access this file at the URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hotpotatoesusers/files/week5bulletpointstry.jqz

To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/members/web/index.html
Regards,

kathyturnerkt <kathyturnersemail@...>

Thank you Rod - I've uploaded the Jquiz into the files area for this group. It's
called: week5bulletpointstry. As it is it cannot generate a web file with
questions (it seems to generate a web file but NO questions). I deleted Q 5 -
and then it works perfectly. So the problem is with Q5. I'd like to know what it
is so I can avoid it in future!!
Thanks a lot,
Kathy

--- In hotpotatoesusers@yahoogroups.com, Rodolphe Maurel <rodolphemaurel@...>
wrote:
>
> Send me the file if you're stuck.
> Rod
>
>
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> www.soundguideweb.com
>

HI All


I'm new with Hot Potatoes and just created my very first exercise,Is there a way
i can actually get the total score after i complete the entire exercise.

Thanks Much.


Dino

To retrieve scores, you will need to host the exercise on a server which
supports score storage. Two options are to run your own Moodle server
(free), or to get an account on the www.hotpotatoes.net server (a
commercial service).

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-20 12:30 AM, dinokarita wrote:
> HI All
>
> I'm new with Hot Potatoes and just created my very first exercise,Is
> there a way i can actually get the total score after i complete the
> entire exercise.
>
> Thanks Much.
>
> Dino
>
>