Hacking Hot Potatoes: The Cookbook

Abstract

This book is dedicated to extending the capabilities of a powerful suite of Web authoring tools – Hot Potatoes, by Half-Baked Software Inc. and the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre. It is intended to help you make the best use of the Hot Potatoes suite so that you maximize the learning opportunities for your students.

Hot Potatoes has been popular with teachers for years. Exercises created with Hot Potatoes are intended as self-exploratory learning activities where learners get feedback on wrong answers, and they can have multiple attempts at finding the right answer to each question.

The recipes you will find in this book are both simple tricks and more complex code implementations to bring more interactivity into the exercises created with Hot Potatoes as well as using Hot Potatoes in Moodle.