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 6.0Question Tools 3.5

Free tools Hot Potatoes

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Questions Tools

http://www.questiontools.com

Hot Potatoes 6.0Question 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

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

Cloze exercise 1, 2

Mix exercise

Match exercise

Crossword exercise

Question Tools 3.5

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.

http://www.reload.ac.uk

Summary

PPT Modules of tutorials

Hotpotatoes

QuestiontoolsModules of practice exercises

Reload editor Web-based package

In the format of a website

In the format of a CD-ROM