Thanks Gordon for your efforts Will I have to delete my earlier download and replace it with the one in your link here?
Yes, that's right Mary. The latest zip contains two folders:
hope that is clear
Gordon
Ok thanks-that's a pleasant little job for the weekend for me. I am really sorry by the way that I haven't contributed as much as the others in testing your HotPot2 - I will do some more this weekend but I have to admit the likes of Glenys and Stan are making me feel quite guilty!
That's OK, Mary, we're keeping the difficult bits for you.
Cheers,
Glenys
oh not the maths questions please!!
Thanks Gordon and Mary. This was almost too easy! I am now able to use hot potatoes quizes with my moodle site.
I just have an issue figuring out how to import the hotpot quiz questions to a moodle quiz. I find the happy medium for me is to create hotpot modules and import the questions from those modules into other tests.
Is this still possible? Thanks again!
Hi John,
to import questions from a Hot Potatoes exercise (JCloze, JCross, JMatch, JMix or JQuiz) to the question bank of a Moodle course, from where it can be added to a Moodle Quiz activity, try this:
good luck !
Gordon
thanks gordon. Unfortunately, I don't have any import button in my questions bank or I am missing it. here is a screen shot. I just love hot potatoe so much I won't give it up with 2.0.
Hi John,
I chose my words carefully when I said ...
the attached screenshot shot shows where the link is on my Moodle 2.0 site..
cheers
Gordon
Hot potatoes XML is not one of my options. Does that mean that didn't install the question module correctly? Thanks for your patience and help.
Yes, probably the Hot Potatoes question import script has not been installed (correctly). It needs to go here:
Also, there is a lang file which needs to go here:
Pleae could you confirm that the above files exist on your system.
cheers
Gordon
They exist now! I don't know how I missed it at first. Thanks. I know I will eventually love 2.0 and this takes me one step closer. Can hardly wait to get Mary's book!
Hi Gordon, I also have trouble with importing the hotpotatoes files. I couldnt find the hotpot XML option. need your help.
Thanks
Finita, have you installed the addon to import Hot Potatoes questions to the Moodle question bank? It is not a standard feature yet in Moodle 2.0, so you will need to install it yourself (or ask your Moodle adminitrator to get it installed)
Gordon, yes, that's what I have in mind. I should install the addon hotpot. But I havent find where the addon button is. Need your help please, as I am a newbie.
Hi Finita,
I'm afraid there's no "addon button". You have to install addons as explained here: Installing contributed modules or plugins and you have to be the Administrator of your Moodle platform and have access to the server. Is this the case for you ?
If not, you need to contact the person who is hosting your Moodle platform to do it for you.
Cheers,
Glenys
Hi Finita,
I've tried to group together what's been said in various posts above. Gordon will say if I haven't got it right:
Download the file at: http://bateson.kanazawa-gu.ac.jp/moodle/zip/moodle-20.hotpot-module.zip
It contains 2 folders:
hotpot
this goes into the "mod" folder,
question/format/hotpot
your Moodle site already has a "question" folder, and in that there is already a "format" folder, so all you have to do is put the "hotpot" folder inside the "format" folder, that is in:
question/format/hotpot/format.php
Also, there is a lang file which needs to go here:
question/format/hotpot/lang/en/qformat_hotpot.php
All this has to be done by the Moodle administrator.
After that, a teacher can open a Quiz, in Settings go to the Question Bank and click on Import to see the window below.
Cheers,
Glenys
Dear Gordon and Glennys,
I have followed all the above-mentioned steps but when I import the hotpot files this is what happened.
I have checked the files in "mod", "question" and "lang" folder, they are all similar to what you explained. Do you think that there are things that I've missed
Thanks
Finita,
are you able to import your HP file into the question bank on my Moodle testing server?
Gordon
Gordon,
I tried to input my HP file into your Question Bank and it was succesful. But It wasn't in my server. Do you think I have to redo the process with the two folders that I downloaded?
Thanks
Finita
Yes, it would be a good idea to reinstall the software to be sure you hve the latest versions.
Gordon
Gordon,
This doesn't sound like something a teacher can do, am I correct? do I need to have my administrator run this zip and put those directories where they belong?
Mike
Yes Mike, you are correct.
best regards
Gordon
Gordon, thanks for making this available.
When I tried to upload various Hot Potatoes files with it, I always got the same error message:
"Parsing questions from import file.
Oops, $hotpot object is missing or invalid (source file contructor
Source file not found (or empty): oops"
The same files got imported into Moodle 1.9 fine. I tried a number of different files and changed a few settings as well, but no luck.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here - could you give me a hint?
Thanks a lot!
Elek
Hi Elek,
please could you attach your quiz to your next post to this forum. I would like to try the import myself so I can see why the message appears
thanks
Gordon
Gordon, this is mysterious. Yesterday I tried a couple of different files (jqz, jmt, etc.), with different source files, and none of them worked, all returned the same error message, while they all worked in 1.9. I wanted to test them once again this morning before attaching them - and they all work fine now. I swear I didn't change anything. And I didn't make up that error message, that's what I got every time I tried. What is going on here?
I think my initial assumption was right and I must have missed something simple and obvious, and then I must have changed something without noticing it, which doesn't reflect very well on my abilities.
I'm sorry about the false alarm, Gordon.
Hi Elek,
it may be something you did differently, but maybe something changed on the server too. Maybe someone updated the HotPot question import script?
Anyway, I'm glad it is working for you now.
If you have problems with the HotPot module or HotPot question import, then you are welcome to try out your quiz on my testing server. That may help you isolate the cause of the problem.
all the best
Gordon
Hi Gordon,
Thanks for the access - just uploaded a test exercise called "Vocabulary 1" with no problem, which I was unable to upload to my server; got the same error message as before. Obviously, there's something wrong my setup because it doesn't work once again. It's good to know that the exercise itself is fine and the problem is elsewhere. Just a note - it seems that cloze exercises using the dropdown feature don't get displayed properly; not a major thing, I just have to remember not to use it.
Thanks a lot once again!
Hi Elek,
you mean this error?
I would say it is impossible to get that if both the HotPot module, in "mod/hotpot", and the HotPot import script, in "question/format/hotpot", are up-to-date. Maybe you updated one but not the other?
Gordon
Hi Gordon,
Thanks a lot for your help - of course you were right. I thought I had the latest version; apparently I didn't.
Hi guys,
I'm sorry if this seems a dense question, but does this all mean that Moodle 2 will run native Hot Potatoes quizs without any modification. This was one aspect I really missed when using Moodle 2 at the university where I work, versus my own Private Moodle 1.9X version.
Thanks for your patience, and I too will join in the testing process.
Hi Paul,
> does this all mean that Moodle 2 will run
> native Hot Potatoes quizs without any modification.
Yes, in Moodle 2.x you can run Hot Potatoes quizzes from a "native" xml file (i.e. a jcl, jcw, jmt, jmx or jqz file), or from the html file.
But ...
... the standard Moodle 2.x packages do not currently include the HotPot module (in the "mod/hotpot" folder) or the Hot Potatoes question bank import script (in the "question/format/hotpot" folder), so they have to be installed by the server administrator as 3rd-party plugins.
You can download the HotPot module for Moodle 2.x from the Moodle CONTRIB repository, or from the following URL:
regards
Gordon
Hello Gordon,
thanks a lot for this plug-in that I just found...
Everything look find and working well.
However, I have a lot of hot potatoes quiz with pictures. It look like they do not follow. Is there a way to make sure questions and images are imported.
Thanks!
François
Hi Francois,
it is difficult to import images and audio in the question bank, because historically a single question in the question bank could only have one image associated with it. I have not tried importing multimedia questions recently though, so maybe things have changed.
Are you able to create a question with an image or audio when you create the question through the normal Moodle question-bank interface?
regards
Gordon
Hi Gordon
I am having difficulty importing Hotpot xml file with images to a moodle question bank. Considering it's been a year since your last message here, I was wondering if anything has changed.
Regards
Asim
nothing's changed - as far as I can remember
Could you you upload a copy of your HotPot file and images with your next post to this forum, so that I have something to test on if and when I find time to investigate this issue?
thanks
Gordon
Thanks for the quick response. I am attaching it with this post, since I am currently testing this as a way of bulk importing questions to moodle there are only 3 questions in that file.
I managed to get it working under HotPot activity like many have suggested here (upload the entire zip file and then unzip). However, it doesn't seem to be possible with the moodle's question bank import function. I like the Moodle's Quiz module better.
In the meanwhile I found a workaround, here's what I did.
Regards
Asim
