Hot Potatoes ver. 6.0.4.23 Multilingual for Windows (Released on December 12, 2005)

What is Hot Potatoes?
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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled- sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is
free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.



New features in version 6
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* All the applications now support Unicode data and configuration on Windows 2000 and XP. This means you can create exercises in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc.
* The V6 output format has been extensively rewritten to make it 100% XHTML 1.1-compliant.
* All exercises can now have time-limits placed on them (instead of on the reading text).
* JQuiz now handles four question types, including multiple-choice and short-answer, and you can mix question types in one exercise. (The old JBC no longer exists, because JQuiz does all question-based formats.)
* JQuiz questions can be weighted, and answers can be designated as (for example) "30% correct", to enable more
sophisticated scoring.
* Exercise output has been designed so that it's easier to edit in common Web editor programs such as DreamWeaver. For
instance, the text of a gapfill exercise is now part of the XHTML body, and can be edited WYSIWYG-style.
* Source files have been modularized to make them easier to understand, edit and maintain.
* A new Insert Object wizard allows you to create nested XHTML object tags to embed common media players into exercises.
* All old output formats have been removed, to simplify the applications and keep bloat to a minimum. However, if you
still want to use v5 output, you can continue to run version 5 alongside version 6.
* The suite has a new-look interface, with new icons which we hope are clearer and more colourful than the old ones, and
many changes have been made to increase support for accessibility.