how have you dealt with HotPot license?

how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - jayne morgan
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we are a 6th form college running moodle who want to use hotpot, but cannot afford the licence requirements that hotpot suggest - we would count as not requiring a licence, except for the fact that our moodle is closed user-only access so we aren't technically making hotpot available on the www as the non-license status requires.

have other people found ingenious ways of dealing with this licensing issue?

cheers

jayne

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Re: how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - Martin Holmes
Hi there,

You could post copies of all your exercises elsewhere on a public server, in order to comply with the licence terms.

Cheers,
Martin
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Re: how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - Art Lader
Wow, talk about getting advice straight from the source! (Hmmm... I am starting to think that any "Martin" I meet online is going to be a Godsend.)

By the way, if you upload the quizzes to site files, they available to the public. That should do it, no?

Thanks,
Art
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Re: how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - jayne morgan

cheers guys - both of you have reinforced what I was thinking was the most sensible way 'around' it.  BTW, I totally agree with the 'Martin' thing - my absolute godsend is also one.

thanks again

j

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Re: how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - Martin Holmes
That would be OK as long as each quiz has a URL where it can be browsed and used by anyone, and where search engines will find it. The idea of the licence terms is that your materials are not just available to everyone, but findable (through search engines) and usable, so that you're actually contributing something back to the community, in lieu of paying for the software.

Nobody ever called me a Godsend before! I'm hanging out in the Moodle HotPot and SCORM modules to see if anyone is testing the new SCORM features in HotPot.

Cheers,
Martin
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Re: how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - Art Lader

Hmmm... I think that the search engines will be able to crawl a URL like http://www.aiken.moodlerooms.com/moodle/file.php/1/genders.htm, but the file.php might screw things up. Might be best to just make a folder outside of Moodle and pop the quizzes in there - http://www.aiken.moodlerooms.com/hotpot/gender.htm. (Those are bogus URL's, by the way)

I bought a Masher license and a Text Toys license, but never have done so for Hot Pot, so I need to think about this a bit. Just assumed that site files would be okay.

Hot Pot does SCORM now? Woohoo! I am off to the Hot Potatoes home page!

The compliment was totally sincere, Martin. I think that you will find that many teachers are truly grateful for Hot Potatoes. مبتسم

You know, Martin, you meet the nicest people in these forums. Bernie Dodge of WebQuest fame, for example, used to visit. I haven't seen him in quite a while though. Anyway, maybe you will visit us often. That would be outstanding!

Regards,
Art

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Re: how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - Josep M. Fontana
The advice you've been given is good. And you could also buy a couple of individual licenses to help the good people at Half-baked software and thank them for the good work they've done with this nice piece of software مبتسم Having a license allows you to use the masher which is rather useful in some contexts (unfortunately not much within Moodle).
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Re: how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - Martin Holmes
Because the Masher can now create a SCORM package containing a full unit, I'm hoping it might be more useful in Moodle in future مبتسم

I'm still not sure whether including an index page or navigation buttons is a good idea for the SCORM package, or whether the LMS should always provide indexing and navigation for a package. I'd appreciate some feedback on this, if anyone has a chance to test it. Even without a Masher registration, you can create units of up to three exercises.
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Re: how have you dealt with HotPot license?

بواسطة - Josep M. Fontana
I'm going through an especially busy period and I don't have time to do what I like the most which is to play around with software smile. So I haven't had a chance to try the SCORM features of Hot Potatoes (but I plan to do it as soon as I can).

The advantage of having an index page like the ones generated by the Masher in Moodle is that it would allow us to unclutter the main page a little bit (or considerably, depending on how many Hot Potatoes quizzes one uses). Moodle is in general a very nice application but one of its most unpleasant defects IMHO is that it is not very flexible when it comes to organize your resources and activities. I often need to include a lot of very short inter-related Hot Potatoes quizzes in my courses. The problem is that when I do this, users have to get into really heavy scrolling up and down and the course becomes pretty unmanageable. If we were able to cluster sets of related quizzes under a single link, that would be a great enhancement. Maybe the SCORM format allows us to do this. But then again I don't really like the current interface for SCORM in Moodle sad.
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