This is a useful free software to create your own quiz. The quiz can be created in forms of multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence,crossword,matching /ordering and gap-filling exercises.You can download the exercises that you have created or publish them in the web.
you can download the software here: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
- Good teaching materials for language learning.
- Instant feedback.
- The score calculation of the quiz can assist in evaluating students' learning.
- It is a kind of drills to enhance memorize.
- Fit to the theory of behaviorism.
Teacher can adapt and supplement their teaching materials by adding quizzes
- Pre-task: use the quiz to hold warming-up activity to test students' background knowledge on the topic;
- Pre-task: use the quiz to review the knowledge learned in the last class.
- while-task: teacher can supplement the teaching materials and add more exercises for students to improve their comprehension.
- while-task: students can be divided into different groups and use this tool to evaluate their work after their presentation.
- after task: for evaluating the outcome of the learning and for reviewing and reinforcing the knowledge.
- Time-consuming for designing a quiz.
- Sometimes technical problems occur.
- The layout and format of the quiz is old and lack of interesting.
- Drills are not for students constructing knowledges.
- Lack of interaction and communication in the class.