Some authoring tools in e-material designing

Authoring tools MS. Powerpoint Hot Potatoes 6.0 Questiontools 3.5 Reload Editor

MS. PowerPoint To design slides of introductions, instructions, presentations, … Example 1 Example 2

Hot Potatoes 6.0 Question Tools 3.5 Free tools Hot Potatoes Questions Tools

Hot Potatoes 6.0 Question Tools 3.5 What are they?  They are two sets of authoring tools…  … which enable us to create interactive Web- based exercises of several basic types.  The exercises are standard Web pages using HTML for display, and JavaScript for interactivity.  We don't need to know anything about HTML or JavaScript to use the programs.

Hot Potatoes 6.0

3 steps to create an exercise  Entering data (questions, answers and so on)  Configuring the output (preparing the button captions, instructions, and other features of your Web pages)  Creating Web pages (compiling your exercise into HTML pages).

Step 1 – Entering data

Step 2 – Configuring output

Step 3 - Publishing

Hot Potatoes 6.0 Examples of interactive exercises  Quiz exercise Quiz exercise  Cloze exercise 1, 2 Cloze exercise 12  Mix exercise Mix exercise  Match exercise Match exercise  Crossword exercise Crossword exercise

Question Tools 3.5

4 steps to create an exercise  Creating screens (each screen displays one question)  Making a list of screens  Setting the options  Creating a webpage

Step 1. Creating screens

Step 2. Making a list

Step 3. Setting the options

Step 4. Creating the webpage

Reload editor To assemble modules into a tree of folders To publish the assembly in the format of web pages.

Summary PPT Modules of tutorials Hotpotatoes Questiontools Modules of practice exercises Reload editor Web-based package In the format of a website In the format of a CD-ROM