![]() The text glosses consisted in small pop-up boxes that appear around a word showing any annotation or explanation or meaning that we had previously coded for that specific word. As a language professor, I found text and audio glosses very useful for English language learners. This book provides modifiable templates based on the original Hot Potatoes exercises that make it possible to increase the professor’s creativity by adding a more beautiful layout, different video and audio players based on the then popular Flash Player, and also some impressive tools for teaching languages such as the image, text and audio glosses. The title of this book is “Hacking Hot Potatoes: The Cookbook”. In 2013, I bought a book written by professor Stan Bogdanov from the New Bulgarian University. The potentiality of Hot Potatoes was increased with additional hacks or code add-ons carried out by enthusiastic programmers. ![]() With this suite of tools, we could design a lot of exercises in any field of knowledge. For adding sound or video the software used Flash Player. All exercises done with these applications were based mainly on HTML, CSS, JavaScript. The five applications are JQuiz, JCloze, JMix, JCross, and JMatch. This authoring software tool is comprised of five applications that can create exercises for the web either in elearning platforms or just in normal web pages. ![]() ![]() Before the advent of H5P for Moodle in 2017, the leading platform for designing interactive exercises for Moodle and other platforms was Hot Potatoes, version 6.0 at that time. ![]()
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