I am reluctant to use Hot Potatoes with my students because the answers to any quiz I set up are displayed in the source view.
I teach level 3 / 4 computing (National Diploma / HNC) students who are very capable of accessing this code view.
Is there any simple way of encrypting the answers?
Thanks for alerting me to this flaw in the HP system! I too teach computer and science whizzes, and could have the same problem. Has anyone answered your query?
Another thought: is there any way of disabling the "View Source" ?
Dear Suzanne Jensen
I wrote a long reply to this forum and then pressed the "site popups allowed" button in my Google bar and all was lost! Poignant.
I am sorry to say that I do not think I will have the time to write my post all again. In brief then....
There is no way of preventing viewers seeing the source code (assuming they can use a standard browser) if they try hard.
You can do one of two things, or both....
1) Disable their browser so that it is difficult to select "display source". There is code on these forums for doing this.
2) Encode the source code. There is code for encoding the source code in these forums but it would be difficult to have your whole HP page encoded without considerable hacking - by adding some sort of filter such as is used to encode email addresses.
However
1) If you disable their browser using a popup window, and right click prevention, then the source remains in the cache of the browser.
Additionally you will create problems for students that have popup blockers (as I do!). Please see
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/search.php?search=popup+webct&id=5
2) If you encode the source then (assuming you are letting users use a standard browser) you will have to include the decoding mechanism for the browser to be able to read the source. A computer savvy student will see what is going on.
E.g. one way of encoding the source is to use the sort of technique used by the attached file. (Search for "Rob Butner" on these forums for an example) But your students will be able to find the decoder at this page, among others.
All the same, using a new popup page and encoding would make it difficult to view the source, perhaps more difficult than doing the test, so my vote is to include these measures. If we had a budget then we would be able to pay for these measures to be included in future editions of moodle.
Tim
Takemoto
TIm--
Rob Butner here--- I have new and improved code to produce more secure quizzes----even in Opera--- If you know of a requirement, let me know and I'll get the code to you---- Sorry I havent been around the forums for a while--- I've been involved in new projects--- Take Care---
Rob
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Its possible to include the answers to a hotpot in a seperate javascript file (we haven't tried this with moodle), although the answers still end up client side.
It is possible to make this type of highly focussed studying 
harder to perform by using ambiguously named image files in matching and drag and drop exercises.
