What is Hot Potatoes?

What is Hot Potatoes?

1. What is it?

   • The Hot Potatoes suite is a set of six authoring tools, created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre.

2. 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

3. standards

   • Internet Explorer 6+
   • Mozilla 1.2+
   • Phoenix
   • Safari

4. The authoring tools will also handle Unicode, so you can create exercises in virtually any language, or in a mixture of languages.

5. All you need to do is enter your data: texts, questions, answers, etc.

6. You do not need to know anything about HTML or JavaScript for use the programs.