Hot Potatoes™ - The Masher
Why
use The Masher?
A Hot Potatoes™ Masher activity produces an exercise with links to multiple resources (including multiple Hot Potatoes™ exercises and other resources such as Microsoft® Word or Adobe® Acrobat® files).
The unregistered version of Hot Potatoes™ and Masher software restricts the user and, without the registration key, it is only possible to link three units of Hot Potatoes™ exercises. A unit created with the Masher can share the same appearance settings and be linked automatically by navigation buttons, and it includes an automatically created index page.
How to create a Masher activity
The following instructions will help you create a Masher activity shown above.
- Prepare three Hot Potatoes™ activities.
See JCloze, JCross, JQuiz, JMatch and JMix
instructions. Save the activities in one
folder on your E-Guides USB memory stick.
Start
Hot Potatoes™ (Start > All
Programs > Hot Potatoes
6)
and double-click on The Masher.
- Click on Add Files and
browse for the previously saved Hot Potatoes™ activities.
Select one activity and Open.
Repeat for two more activities.
- Save the
completed activity (File > Save
As) on your E-Guides USB memory
stick. Note that the file is a .jms type.
This is the file you will need to open if
you want to edit the activity.
- To enable the
interactive exercise as a linked activity
click on Build Unit at
the bottom of the dialogue box.
- If the version
of Hot Potatoes™ is
unregistered The Masher will offer a prompt
to confirm that only three activities can
be linked.
- The Unit builds and you will see a prompt Would you like to view the Unit now? Click OK.
Now that you have tried a Masher activity why not create another one with activities you have created?
Suggestions for use
The following are examples of learning materials produced using the Masher in Hot Potatoes software. Several activities can be linked to check on learning and give a natural progression through a set of activities.
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