Hotpotatoes

With the Hotpotatoes, teachers can design a range of online tasks such as matching exercises, MC questions, Fill in the blanks and so on. The online exercies boost learners' autonomy and foster independent self learning. Teaching and learning becomes more efficient since learners can get immediate hints and feedback and assessment results from the computer.

As we all know, students are exposed to an explosively large amount of information through the internet. There is so much information that learners may feel lost and confused. What matters most is how to guide students to process appropriate materials. Hotpatoes exercises will help to scaffold students with proper language input. They will guide students to select suitable online materials for the more interactive task such as blogging. Hotpotatoes exercises are especially important for young learners to prevent that learners may be scared away from the highly difficult authentic online materials.