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Hot Potatoes

Hot Potatoes : The purpose of the Hot Potatoes is to enable you to create interactive Web-based teaching exercises

Operating system
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11
File size
9.1 MB
License
Freeware
Last updated
Nov 20, 2025
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Overview

What is Hot Potatoes?

Hot Potatoes : The purpose of the Hot Potatoes is to enable you to create interactive Web-based teaching exercises

In depth

A closer look at Hot Potatoes

Hot Potatoes is a simple-to-use program which allows you to create an interactive multiple choice or short-answer text, jumbled-sentence exercises, crosswords, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises that you can publish online. The interface of the application is plain and easy to work with. Upon initialization, you can set a username and choose the language to work in. So, you can select between 'JQuiz', 'JCross', 'JMix', 'JCloze', 'JMatch' and 'The Masher'. Each of these modules comes with its own range of configurable settings. They focus on the appearance, user strings, buttons, index, picture, links, HTML tables, media objects and grid management, among others.

Hot Potatoes 7.0.3.0

A program to develop up to six different types of educational exercises for your website. The tools included in the program are jquiz jcloze jmatch jmix jcross and the masher. A list of sentences where the user must guess the missing word can be created using ppjcloze. Remember to give hints to help the user solve the exercise. With the help of jquiz it is possible to create multi-questionnaires. Jmatch can generate drag and drop exercises in which the user must match a word in a list to another. However jcross allows you to make crossword puzzles using the words you enter. Is a tool for the student to indicate a sentence word by word although it also offers the option of ordering the letters or syllables of a.

the last one, the masher, allows you to compile the rest of the exercises and generate an entire html document with all of them. You do not need to upload them to a server after that as they can be executed from the hard disk in any browser.

Verdict

Should you download Hot Potatoes?

Hot Potatoes runs on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11 and is available under the Freeware license — the installer is 9.1 MB. We’ve catalogued it under Teaching Tools.

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At a glance

Hot Potatoes specifications

Category
Teaching Tools
Publisher
Half-Baked Software Inc.
Last updated
Nov 20, 2025
License
Freeware
Operating system
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11
File size
9.1 MB
Price
Free
Page views
1205

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