Glenys Hanson

Hi Ryan,

As Gordon says, this is not really a Hot Potatoes question - it's a general Moodle one.
What you call "lines" are, I think, what Moodle calls "sections" or "topics". You can put lots of Quizzes or Hot Potatoes in one section. Below there's an example of two sections from one of my courses. You can see the actual course here: http://uepd.quizport.com/course/view.php?id=56

There are more courses on the platform that you can have a look at to get ideas for different ways of presenting quizzes and other documents and activities. When you've got used to Moodle, you'll find it's quite easy.

I hadn't realised there were so many Dutch speakers in Britain.

Oops! Just noticed I didn't get my quotation marks right:

Quote: 'Truss dedicates the book "to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution"; she added this dedication as an afterthought after finding the factoid in a speech from a librarian.^[1]' Wikipedia

And, euh... maybe others have a tiny prob. with capitals.

Your mother's got her work cut out, Mary, if she goes round telling people about all the similar mistakes on shop signs. But I think punctuation and capitalisation are the only "inaudible' parts of written English grammar.

I don't take this stuff too seriously - not like the French with their hundreds of rules for written French set in stone in the 18th century - all "inaudible". They spend as long at school trying to learn "correct" orthography (nobody succeeds 100%) as the Chinese and Japanese do learning characters and they don't even get the reward at the end of reading faster than we do in English.

By the way, I'm impressed by how correctly most people write on these forums. When I venture into other realms I realise that, though not unique, it's quite rare.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi there,

This is something I've wanted for ages. It's something I use in the face-to-face classroom that students love doing: creating quizzes to test out on their classmates, and is pedagogically so useful because they really have to get to grips with and research the subject.

The ways I've got round it:

1. They produce a .doc version and I turn it into a Quiz or Hot Potatoes exercises. Lots of work for me.
2. I create a Moodle "course" where they all have "teacher" role and can make Quizzes and Hot Potatoes themselves. Unless they're trainee teachers they're often not willing to invest the time necessary to master these tools.
3. Use outside-Moodle easy-to-use quiz creators. This was a couple of years ago - at that time I didn't find a satisfactory solution.

It would be wonderful to have an inhouse tool. In my opinion, it doesn't need to have anything like the sophistication of Quiz or Hot Potatoes: just a straightforward QCM creator would be fine, yes, like Peerwise. It's motivating for students to be able to include images, audio and video files.

Cheers,

Bonsoir Charlotte,

Le seul "hic" avec QuizPort c'est qu'il marche avec Moodle 1.9 mais non avec Moodle 2. Les fans de QuizPort attendent avec impatience sa version Moodle 2 qui va s'appeler TaskChain.

Cheers,

Glenys