WHAT IS HOT POTATOES?

Hot Potatoes is a set of six author's tools, developed by the equipment (team) of the University of Victory CALL Laboratory Research and Development, which allow you to elaborate interactive exercises based on web pages of six basic types.

The interactivity of the exercises is obtained by means of JavaScript (a "Script" is a bit of code that does something in a web page). This code is done by a language called JavaScript invented by Netscape. Later you can publish the above mentioned pages in a servant Web. 

In addition, the program is designed in order that you could personalize almost all the characteristics of the pages. Therefore, if you know something of HTML code or of JavaScript, you will be able to do any change that you wish in the way of working of the exercises or in the format of the pages.

From the year 2009 it is a program freeware, previously it was free for teachers who were using the non-profit-making program but it was necessary to register the program; in opposite case, the program did not have a complete functionality and took limitations as the number of questions that they can put in an exercise, but it already went on to the history.

Utilization: The information editable from every type of exercise is saved in a specific file of every HP's application. From the same one there will be generated the final interactive document in format *.HTML. This page is raised to the web servant. The pupil does not need to have the program installed in his equipment Hot Potatoes to realize every exercise. It is only needed to accede using an Internet browser as Internet Explorer 5.5 or Superior.