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Content Creation Hot Potatoes JMix
Content Creation Hot Potatoes JMix
Content Creation Hot Potatoes JMix
1. Start Hot Potatoes (Start > All Programs > Hot Potatoes 6) and double-click on
JMix.
3. Type the following text into the Main Sentence on the left side:
a. crucial
b. crumb
c. crumpet
d. crunch
e. crusade
f. crush.
This is the correct order. JMix will jumble the words before the activity starts.
4. To add the instructional text, go to Configure Output. (Options > Configure Output)
or click on the Go to configuration screen button on the toolbar.
USB memory stick. Note that the file is a .jmx type. This is the file you will need to
open if you want to edit the activity.
7. For a JMix activity there are two choices to view an interactive exercise. To enable the
interactive exercise as a drag-and-drop activity (as above) go to File >
Create Webpage > Drag/Drop Web page for v6 browsers or click on the
Export as a drag and drop button on the toolbar.
8. Once the HTML file has been saved a View or upload the exercise dialogue box
opens. Click on View the exercise in my browser.
For the standard option, click on the Export to create Web page for V6
browsers button.
Now that you have tried a JMix activity why not create another one?
Open the activity E-Guides on SDELC (http://www.sdelc.co.uk) Module 7.0: E-
learning content sourcing and creating > Information about using Hot
Potatoes > JMix: Jumbled word or sentence exercise > E-Guides. (Follow the
instructions to create the more advanced activity showing how to add alternate responses to
the activity.
Further resources:
Aboriginal symbols:
http://www.virtualartroom.com/images/HotPotArt/aboriginal_symbols_drag1.htm
Windows: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/wintutor6/jmix1.htm
Elasticity: http://ferl.qia.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=3868