Hot Potatoes is probably one of the best-known activity creation programs used with Moodle. Hot Potatoes is a Quiz-type module that offers some additional question formats like JCloze, mentioned earlier. However, Hot Potatoes looks like it is going to be replaced by Gordon Bateson's QuizPort in upcoming Moodle versions from 2.1. QuizPort, which will be renamed TaskChain, is also available for use in pre-2.0 versions.
QuizPort allows you to create a set of activities that are viewed as a single entity and are given a single grade. The design of QuizPort, which is similar to HotPot, allows you to use several different item creation tools. You can use Qedoc, Hot Potatoes, and HTML to make quizzes. We will work with Hot Potatoes activities, since so many people use it. To start with, we will look at the options available in QuizPort, but first, we need to install it.
To install QuizPort, you need to first download it. To download it, go to Moodle's Downloads and Plugins page at http...