Now that we have seen all the options available in QuizPort, we are going to create one. First, we will need to create some activities to insert into the test. We will use Hot Potatoes to create the test activities for our QuizPort.
If you are unfamiliar with Hot Potatoes, go to their website at http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ where you will be able to read through the information related to the software and download the newest version. Hot Potatoes is now freeware and the current version is 6.3. This is likely to be the last version since they are no longer developing or supporting Hot Potatoes and it is not open source. Once you have it installed and opened the package, you will see an image of a pile of potatoes on one side and one big potato about to get squished on the other. Each of the potatoes offers a different activity type to work with. The five quiz types available in HotPot are JCloze, JCross, JMatch, JMix, and JQuiz.
JCloze — This item type allows you to create...