Hot Potatoes Activity on Moodle

In this post, we will learn how to upload the Hot Potatoes activity on moodle. First, we have to login on our moodle as a admin and click on the Turn Editing On as shown in Figure.


Once, the moodle get into the editing mode, the window will look like as shown below. First, we have to enable the Hot Potatoes Plugin through site administrator.


 Click on the site administrator as shown in the left side of the page. Then click on the manage activities under the plugin and search for the Hot Potatoes from the available plugins, as shown below
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Click on the Hot Pot cross eye to enable it, and then go back to the home page. Now, on the right side of the Home page MAIN MENU and left side we have Add Block. To add an activity, under the MAIN MENU add activity and resource link is given. Click on the add activity and resource link will enable the activity as shown below.


From the available plugin, select the Hot Pot and click on the Add button. This will open a new window with following setting as given below. In the source section, we have to add the HTML file previously created using the Hot Potatoes as shown in figure.


In the current activities, we have additional setting like we can allow number of attempt a student can do for current activity and also put some password, as shown below.


Once all the setting is over, we will save the return to the course or home page.


In the right side, we have seen the currently added activity on the main menu. Similarly, we can add other Hot Pot activities or other activities in the MAIN MENU section. After adding the Hot Pot activity, we have click on the Add Block on the left side below the Site Administrator  and select the Recent activity block.


After adding the Recent Activity block, it will be displayed on the right below the MAIN MENU Block as shown in figure.



Now, we will Turn editing off  as shown below.


After this we will check our recently added activity by clicking on it. Congratulation, you have successfully added the activity on the moodle.



In the next post, we will learn how to enable the permission to make it visible for the student, and how to show the result on attempt of the activity.

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