Activity 6: Using Hot Potatoes to investigate texts

Aim: Help students understand texts better

Moodle modules: Hot Potatoes

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: **

In Activity 5 we looked at using Questionnaire to ask questions which get students to think about texts and include question types for measuring degrees of perception and attitude.

Sometimes we may want more straightforward quizzes using matching or multiple-choice questions. We can either do these in Quiz, or we can use Hot Potatoes. The big advantages of Hot Potatoes are that it is much simpler to set up and you can easily embed images, sound, and video in the questions. The main disadvantages are that it is easier for students to cheat with Hot Potatoes by clicking on the back button and clicking on hint to see each letter of a word. Also, it is not a central part of the Moodle gradebook. So, if you want to set up an activity that could be used as a test, you may be better off using Quiz. However, as we already made a matching activity...